US EditionDanish Language Board Launches Campaign to Combat English Loanwords
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Danish language board launches campaign to combat English loanwords
Dansk Sprognævn, Denmark's national language board, has launched a nationwide campaign to study Danes' use of English words and phrases, including finding out which commonly-used English words can be replaced by their Danish alternatives.
The Danish Language Board wants Danish language users to think about the many English loanwords that we have brought into the language.
The Danish Language Board is now asking Danes to tell us which English loanwords bother them, and to suggest Danish replacement words.
Protecting DanishThe campaign "Can we speak Danish well?" is the first of its kind from the Danish Language Board, says director Thomas Hestbæk Andersen. - We are trying to take the temperature of Danes' perception of the English influence and find words that bother Danes, he says. The campaign from the Danish Language Board runs until the end of the year. During that period, everyone can report to the board which English words and expressions t…
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Often the use of loanwords and expressions is due to both linguistic laziness and linguistic inferiority – an idea that one sounds a little smarter or funnier in English than in Danish.
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