1312: German Calques Jul 14, 2018

German tends to be more flexible in allowing for English loan words than French for cultural reasons, but there are instances when this changes. Indeed, when people have attempted to create Anglish—an all-Germanic remodelling of English—they often just look to Modern German. For instance, French and English both use the word 'television' (or at least 'télévision') but in German the word is 'Fernseher'; the German word comes right from the same French word, at least sort of, as all of them mean 'far' 'seeing', but the French uses Greek and Latin roots whereas German just used a Germanic calque.

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