Foreign Languages

[Shadow]

You clearly misunderstand what it means for a language to have Germanic roots. (Hint: it doesn't mean that it was once German).

English does not derive from German. English and German have a common ancestor, from which both languages split.

The Spanish words you mentioned are just slang that made it into southern US speak because of proximity. You'll notice that most of them are nouns that have no real counterpart in English, hence why their Spanish version is used unchanged.

[Neobaron]

Alzheimer's
Angst
strudel
aspirin
autobahn
automat
blitz
bratwurst
cobalt
dachshund
degauss
deli
diesel
doberman
doppelganger
doppler
ersatz
fahrenheit
fest
flak
frankfurter
gauss
geiger
glitz
gneiss
hamburger
hamster
hertz
hinterland
kaput
kindergarten
lager (this one is especially important especially for me and especially tonight)
lederhosen
levi's
masochism
neanderthal
nickel
pinscher
poltergeist
quartz
realpolitik
rottweiler
rucksack
sauerkraut
schnapps (again important)
schnauzer
schnitzel
spitz
strudel
uber
waltz
wanderlust
wiener
wunderbar
zeitgeist
zeppelin
zinc

and this is just the first (literally the first) butan i pushed in the googles.

Seriously.

[Muse]

You just proved my point. You had to google them. How often do you use blitz or leiderhosen. Most english speakers could not think those off the top of their hands.
Once again thank you for your help.

[Neobaron]

You are really, really dumb.

[Shadow]

You just proved my point. You had to google them. How often do you use blitz or leiderhosen. Most english speakers could not think those off the top of their hands.
Once again thank you for your help.

No, no, not at all. You use lots of those words all the time without realizing that they are German words as well. Deli, for example, and nickel, I guarantee you have said at some time.

The fact that they are not obviously german words does nothing to support your ridiculous argument (I am not even really sure what/why you are arguing at this point).

[Muse]

all i am trying to say is that spanish is a lot more present than you say.

[Genevieve]

Ok musey, let's break this down.

Cantar means to sing. In mass we call the person who leads the singing the cantor.

In Italian, canto means singing, and cantor means singer. Isn't it funny how you call the singing person that in your Roman Catholic mass.

Frio means cold. What do we do when were cold? We freeze.

And frieren in German means to freeze. Freddo in Italian means cold, etc.

But the best one is Frito. It means to fry.. What are Fritos? Fried corn chips. This is mostly because of our common latin roots.

No, it's because of latin Americans living in the English-speaking USA. I've never heard of Fritos, and I doubt you would get it past a scrabble Nazi (:O another German word commonly used by English speakers).

burro

What is that?

ranch

Only in America.

taco

Mexican food... obviously has a Spanish name.

chihuahua

Dachshund, Shih Tzu, do I go on?

churro

Spanish food, Spanish name.

mesa

What?

guitar?

Gitarre in German, guitare in French, all coming from cithara in Latin, and kithara in Ancient Greek and ultimately tar, which in Persian means string.

You think Spanish is more present in our language because it's the only other language you've learnt. This is OK to think, until you get told many times that it's not true.

[Gen. Volkov]

You just proved my point. You had to google them. How often do you use blitz or leiderhosen. Most english speakers could not think those off the top of their hands.
Once again thank you for your help.

Because most English speakers don't realize they are speaking German words. You seriously cannot be this dense. Spanish words stand out precisely because they are not part of the language. We say German and French words all the time, without even realizing it, because they are part of the language. Oh, and for the record, I use the word blitz all the time. Every Saturday and Sunday, when I'm talking football. As do the TV announcers for the games. Not to mention whenever I play Madden or NCAA football on my PS3. Besides you are kind of ignoring words like hamster and kindergarten, which I very much doubt anyone realizes are borrowed directly from German.

Oh and Lucy, a burro is a donkey, and a mesa is a plateau.

all i am trying to say is that spanish is a lot more present than you say.

Oh for pete's sake. NO. English is mostly German, Latin, and French, with a smattering of Greek. All the other languages that have contributed to English make up about 1% of the language. So the Spanish contribution is less than 1%.

[Pippin]

what has actually caused the influence of these roots?

You just proved my point. You had to google them. How often do you use blitz or leiderhosen. Most english speakers could not think those off the top of their hands.
Once again thank you for your help.

top of my hands