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Friday, May 25th, 2012 01:37 pm
lethargic_man: The awful German language (Mark Twain's words, not mine) (Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache)
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One of these two words is English, and one German (for the same thing):

überboss, Oberchef

Can you work out which is which?
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Date: 2012-05-25 05:37 pm (UTC)
lethargic_man: (linguistics geekery)
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It strikes me as fairly self-evidently a trick question, in that "überboss" looks German but isn't, rather than something one had to work out.
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