Dutch loanwords

Book Contents Objective: The objective of Dr. Robert Sutton’s “Good Boss, Bad Boss” is to establish the case for why bosses are vital to the health and success of an organization and a productive environment. His clear message is “Bosses Matter!” He establishes the hallmark of a great boss by answering the following three questions: • If you want to be a Good Boss, what do you need to accomplish day after day? • If you have a Bad Boss, what can you do about it? • In short, what are the hallmarks

This paper examines the positive, and negative, impact of English loanwords; currently being used in the Japanese language. Loanwords are words that have been borrowed from one language and incorporated into another; these words are sometimes integrated without any further modification. The initial consideration is as to why so many English loanwords have managed to infiltrate the Japanese language. Thereafter, the negative and positive implications for Japanese society are explored. The aim is to

this essay will discuss about the function of English borrowing words in Indonesia. II. Discussion Indonesian has borrowed many words from other languages especially English. The borrowing happened when Indonesia was in colonialism era. The colony Dutch, English, portugesse, and Japanese as example had been influencing the language of Indonesia. However, native tongue of Indonesia is different from English. For instance, Javanese is very “medok”. Therefore,

modern-day languages, such as Swedish, Portuguese, and Latin. Because all of these languages came from the same source, it makes sense as to why some words in different languages look similar. Compare: English (brother), Dutch (broer), German (brüder), Old Norse (bróðr) English (father), Dutch (vader),

Linguistic Borrowing & Loan Words: Theoretical Considerations One of the fundamental features of language is that it is always changing. Language change is the manner in which the phonetic, morphological, semantic, syntactic and other features of a language are modified over time. Two linguistic disciplines concern themselves with studying language change: Historical Linguistics and Socio Linguistics. Historical linguists examine how a language was spoken in the past

However, exceptions to the policy of ‘sakoku’ did exist and were in relation to trading with the Chinese, Koreans and the Dutch East India Company, which was strictly controlled and enforced, only allowing trade through specifics ports in Japan. The “Japanese were forbidden to make overseas voyages or to return to Japan from overseas” (Encyclopædia Britannica). Consequently

was a continuous but varying influence on the Japanese language and its culture. The result of this centuries long process is a Japanese language that contains more than its fair share of English loanwords. Although most Japanese people, even those of older age, are familiar with a lot of English loanwords, this does not necessarily mean they are familiar with English. In my personal experience, I witnessed a Japanese woman struggling to find the English word for ‘elevator’, despite

Content Introduction . . . . . . . . . 2 I Reasons for borrowings . . . . . . . 4 II Spheres of borrowings . . . . . . . 6 III Classification of borrowings . . . . . . 7 1. Types of borrowings . . . . . . . 8 IV Research part . . . . . . . . . 9 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . 13 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . 15 List of literature . . . . . . . . . 17 Introduction The theme of the research paper is “English borrowings”. This theme arouses my interest as it’s widely discussed in all scientific

Vietnamese culture as well as language. In this essay, I would like to draw attention to the phenomenon of using loanwords, especially in Vietnamese. Loanwords is considered as an important contributor to diversification of Vietnamese language for centuries, from the past to the present and will be continued in the future. Just pay attention to some daily sayings, we will find that using loanwords really plays an essential part of our life and we, probably, do not recognize that

to their survival. Between 1943 and 1945 the Dutch people faced a horrible famine that killed nearly 30,000 Dutch civilians which is an astronomical number for a two years span. (Hitchcock, 98) Seeing as my Grandfather was so young at the time he was not able to remember much about his times during the war, so instead I conducted some research on what life might have been for a Dutch civilian during that time period. During the war time the Dutch government was completely ran by Nazis and as a