{"id":303,"date":"2009-07-24T10:35:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T10:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2009-07-26T21:44:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T21:44:30","slug":"another-5000-words-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/another-5000-words-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Another 5000 words to learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/duden-dictionary.jpeg\" alt=\"duden-dictionary\" title=\"duden-dictionary\" width=\"81\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-304\" \/>Interesting news for German language learners this week \u2013 apparently 5,000 words have been added to the language.<\/p>\n<p>How exactly can you add five thousand words to a language though? Well, apparently a lot of them are from English, including such gems as <em>das It Girl<\/em> and <em>eine No Go Area<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The additions have been made by staff at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duden.de\/\">Duden<\/a>, a respected German dictionary now in its 25th edition. Containing 135,000 words, the current edition is around six times the size of the original, produced in 1880. <\/p>\n<p>And my favourite of the new additions? <em>H\u00fcftgold<\/em>, or as we say in English, &#8220;love handles&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Read more about the additions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/society\/20090721-20739.html\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/8163541.stm\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting news for German language learners this week \u2013 apparently 5,000 words have been added to the language. How exactly can you add five thousand words to a language though? Well, apparently a lot of them are from English, including such gems as das It Girl and eine No Go Area. The additions have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,40,44],"tags":[141,3,123],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-german","category-language-acquisition","category-words","tag-duden","tag-english","tag-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}