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| Subject: | Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? |  |
| Date: | May 28, 2008 |
| From: | Sean Langley | |
Just to echo what others have said, it's common in German for new (and apparently non-German) words to be constructed out of bits of others, just as it is for new ones to be constructed by bolting entire words together. The classic example is Gestapo - Geheime StaatsPolizei.
A quick word from pedants' corner - Stuka is Sturzkampfflugzeug, the "Sturz" meaning to dive - this is why units equipped with, say, Hs 123s were also known as Stuka squadrons.
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 | "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - Paul A. Owen - May 24, 2008 |
| . . . Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - Tom Aronsen - May 24, 2008 |
| . . . Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - John Naja - May 24, 2008 |
| . . . Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - Jeff Sheeham - May 24, 2008 |
| . . . Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - Julian Marles - May 24, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Stupa is shortened Sturmpanzer... Stu..pa... nt - David Nickels - May 27, 2008 |
| . . . Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - William Bradley - May 24, 2008 |
| . . . Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - Mikko Rautiainen - May 25, 2008 |
| . . . Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - Christopher C Tew - May 25, 2008 |
| . . . Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - Juergen Scholz - May 25, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - Raoul G. Kunz - May 28, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - Raoul G. Kunz - May 28, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - Andrew Herbert - May 29, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - Arun Bauer - May 30, 2008 |
| . . . Allied Intelligence Report citation - Paul A. Owen - May 25, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Allied Intelligence Report citation - Philipp Gross - May 28, 2008 |
| . . . Re: "Brummbar" or "Stupa"? - Sean Langley - May 28, 2008 |
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