Losing German or is it preparing to take over English?

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Considering Germans still dub movies and TV-series for people over the age of 12 I'm pretty sure that's not gonna happen in the near future.

Why just over the age of 12 ?

I´ve never seen an American children series not being dubbed.

In fact there's absolutely nothing with English-only on Austrian TV that I currently know of.

For example even documentaries like Fahrenheit 911 are not in English here, they are not even subtitled in German, but completely dubbed in German.

And even the NFL games on Puls 4 have Austrian commentary (yet I always want it to have original commentary).

In Sweden for example you'd never see a show intended for an adult audience being dubbed. Kids shows are dubbed, everything else is at most subtitled.

If German speakers can't even watch simple sitcoms without some bad German dubbing, I hardly think they'll all off a sudden start using English for complicated business or political language. 

[memphis]

Languages aren't static, and there's no pure form of German to be corrupted. Languages are always borrowing from each other wherever speakers have contact. However, many smaller languages are going extinct because of consumption by larger national languages. Something like 90% of current languages are supposed to be extinct by 2100. But German (presuming we want to lump all the German dialects into one "language", I wouldn't) is a survivor. It's big enough, it's good enough, and gosh darn it, people like it. Granted, there's no end in sight for the word borrowing. But that's normal. Look at all the words we've borrowed from other languages.

[Insula Dei]

Aber ist Deutsch nicht einfach Niederländish mit ein siemlig komisch(es?) Akzent und bizzare regeln für Kapitalisation? Ich kann gar nicht viel Unterscheide sehen.

(yeah, German always seems easier than it is to me)

[Franzl]

Aber ist Deutsch nicht einfach Niederländish mit einem sziemligch komisch(esn?) Akzent und bizzaren rRegeln für die KapitalisationGroßschreibung? Ich kann gar nicht viele Unterscheide sehen.

(yeah, German always seems easier than it is to me)

Sorry....it was just so tempting Sure you can do the same to me in French.

[Tender Branson]

Aber ist Deutsch nicht einfach Niederländisch mit einem sziemligch komisch(esn?) Akzent und bizzaren Regeln für die KapitalisationGroßschreibung? Ich kann gar nicht viele Unterscheide sehen.

(yeah, German always seems easier than it is to me)

Sorry....it was just so tempting Sure you can do the same to me in French.

Franzl, you are not a teacher for German, right ? Looking through the stuff of the students and correcting them ?



What's an "Unterscheide" ?

The part below the Vagina ? Or is there an "Upper Vagina" and a "Lower Vagina" ?

What a big difference a change in letters can make ...

[Franzl]

Haha! Didn't even catch that amusing spelling error!

[Insula Dei]

Just goes to illustrate the point, no? You have a language that demands a ridiculous amount of effort to get the detaild right for a Dutch-speaker, and almost no effort to understand.

[anvi]

German isn't going anywhere.  Every language grows its vocabulary, rather than is decimated, by incorporating loan words, and English itself s a spectacular example of this.  Neither standard German nor its various major dialects are in any danger of disappearing.  Similarly, German won't "take over" English; in both standard dictionaries and in its stock of idioms, English has a very significantly larger vocabulary than does German.  And, besides, there is no reason for that to happen.

[minionofmidas]

The actually funny part is that it found it difficult to read that attempt at German without imagining a Dutch accent.

Written Dutch, of course, is easily understood by most speakers of German... most of it, that is. Scandinavian languages, too.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Everyone knows that only the fattest women have a distinguishable Ober- and Unterscheide... The truly fattest even have a Bauchnadelscheide.  Just watch out for that Bauchnadelmarmelade... It'll stink!!!

Excuse me while I go throw up now!