Making A Deutsch Mark

A list of useful loanwords from the German language.

1.       Angst – without this Radiohead wouldn’t exist.

2.      Kindergarten – without this there would be no Kindergarten Cop.

3.      Poltergeist – literally noisy ghost, this would be much less scary, just really annoying.

4.      Schadenfreude – taking pleasure in other people’s misfortune. The Germans are well aware we don’t have a word for this and they find it very amusing indeed.   

                            A list of not so useful loanwords from the German language.

1.       Sauerkraut – sour cabbage, anyone? No thanks.

2.      Wunderkind – a who’s good at German or simply a German child.

3.      Kaputt – this means broken, we can just say broken. If the word broken ever breaks, then we can use Kaputt.