Denglisch in Vienna

This is the worst case of Denglisch that I have ever seen! Check out the photo below. This is packaging from some tomatoes that I bought. It does in fact read “The fruit that really schmecks!” Ahaahahaaa.

For those of you who aren’t in the know, Denglisch is a portmanteau of the German words Deutsch and Englisch. Used in all German-speaking countries, it describes an influx of English, or pseudo-English, vocabulary into the German language. (Yes, I stole that sentence from Wikipedia).

Denglisch in Vienna

Denglisch in Vienna

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One Response to Denglisch in Vienna

  1. Grant says:

    Two other denglisch items I’ve experienced were rather revolting.

    1.) At election time several years ago, a show on MTV over there talked about how people had “gevotet.”

    2.) A German hip-hop artists had a song with the following lyric: “Ich hab’ mein dues ge-paid.”

    I kid you not!

    -GCC

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