Re: Intergermansk - Pizza packaging text :D

From:    "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...>
> > Some academic- and editorial-page-speak:
> > Zeitgeist 1.6M
> > Weltanschauung 450k
> > Same comment applies.
>
> Well, those are words an educated person should know :)
And in fact most educated English speakers *do* know these words; that's
why they have orders of magnitude, up to 100 times, more hits than
"champignon".  Again, it doesn't prove that "champignon" is a word educated,
even hyperliterate, English speakers are likely to know.

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