Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-29
Second lieutenant became Leg.rnscE.
Premier lieutenant became ObeT,eut-

Second lieutenant became LeGrns;i;.
Premier-lieutenant became ObeT!eut-
nant
Nothing. unhappily, was added TO the
officers pay; and a full blooded Ger
man "Faehnrich" was required. like a
mere ordinary Gallo "Porte-epee
Faehnrich.' to look smart, and sup
port q wife and four flaxen-haired in
fants on $40 a month.
ANGLICISMS UNDER BAN.
Now the time has come for the in
Vading Anglicism. Here the war OF
emancipation is a hundred-fold harder.
or late English words have poured into
German ten at a time. A century ago
there were II words of English origin
in the German dictionary. Thirty years
ago there were 150; today there are
some 700, and there are dozens more
of English words in German dress, or
English words translated into German.
There are "dogge" and "Frack.' and
'Punsch," and "Scheck," and "Buch-
maker" and "Schrittmacher" for pace
maker" and "Wolkenkratzer'' for
"skyscraper;" and even 'Nervenschoc.'
A learned etymologist. Herr Dueneer,
has just written a book about them,
and sent it to Kaiser Wilhelm. And
Kaiser Wilhelm, In thanking him,
declares that he sis more interested
than ever In the publication of German
from neologisms and foreign words.
And not without reason. Even class
les like Sudermann use such barbar-
isms as "Struggle- for -L.ifeertum =
which is enough to give less sensitive
men than the kaiser genuine Saxon
"Nervenschoc."
Apparently Wilhelm II has chosen to
begin with Anglicisms in politics, be-
cause in addition to sneering at his
81, 900, 900 Civil List" he has declared
that Address Is no longer to be used
in the sense Of petition or congratula-
ton: and that the Anglicism meet
ing" Is to be banned from the political
reports which are daily drawn up by
his civil chancellory. In the domain
OF sport, however. the kaiser Is help
less and II is here that the all-con
quering Anglicisms come in their ser
ried hosts. Wilhelm ii is not an all
round sportsman. He is therefore
making use OF the crown prince. who
is. The future Friedrich II cares as
much about philology as he does about
metaphysics. But that does not pre-
vent him standing up as his imperial
fathers champion in the lists OF Ger
manism. During his last years visit
TO Oberhof in the Thuringian forest
the crown prince made himself beloved
by the natives by the enthusiasm with
which he entered into their winter
sports. The natives. preparing for his
return visit. started "Bobsleigh club. -
| and asked him. to become president
with pleasure" answered the crown
prince But in letter from his hof-
marshal he suggests that 'Vereln"
| is a better word than Club" and that
| 1t is desirable to find a purer Teutonic
| word than "bobsleigh." The letter
mentions the Germanizing OF "lawn-
| tennis" terms as worthy example.
Lawn tennis" is now officially. Metz
| ballspeiI," or NET Ball Came" and IL
| that does not help the persplring Teu-
| ton to get the ball over the net he
| consoles himself with the thought that
It is better to fail in German than In
| English.
| GERMAN SUBSTITUTES.
| According to DR.. Peschl who was re
| ccIved lately by the kaiser In connection
with a scheme for popular universities.
| Wilhelm II spoke with dlsapproyal of
American and English. technical terms
| used in German textbooks. Here there
arc dozens OF undesirnbles of the ma
turc of ''horse- power" elevator" and
compound machine" For the last
I the kaiser suggested ''verbund ma
chine"
"The genius of the German language
and the Elasticity with which IL lends
| itself to the creation OF compound
words, are such that there is no pos
sibe English word for which an equlva-
lent may not be found" he says.
Had the first William been as dead
against foreign words as his grandson
comments a comic paper, 'he would
never have become German emperor.
He would have preferred to remain
Prussian tKoenig.' which Is good Ger
man for King rather than German
Kaiser which is merely the corrup-
ed Latin, Caesar