Re: Intergermansk - Pizza packaging text :D
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 31, 2005, 19:47 |
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:55:28 -0800, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
>I can' help but wonder at what point a word is
>considered to be "commonly used." I am 60 years old,
>born and raised in the USA, reasonably well educated
>(postgraduate degree in comp. sci.) and an avid
>reader.
>
>This thread is the FISRT time I have ever been exposed
>to the word "champignon". I have never used it or
>encountered it in writing or in conversation. How
>widely used can it be if it has stayed so well hidden
>from me?
Appearently almost zero width. It's the generic word for all fungi in
French, and in German the normal word for that common white mushroom (common
because you can grow it in cellars), aka 'field mushroom' or as 'agaricus
bisporus' (both according to http://dict.leo.org/ ). Pascal, native German
speaker, seems to be the only one to assert that it's commonly used in English.
kry@s:
j. 'mach' wust