Date:  Tue, 4 Apr 1995 09:53:05 EDT

From:  BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: Re: Gesundheit!



From:  NAME: David Bergdahl

    FUNC: English

    TEL: (614) 593-2783          <BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]A1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAX>

To:   MX%"ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu"[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MRGATE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAX



Terry's comment and the previous listings suggest to me that what's happened to

"Gesundheit" and "Bitte!" are similar: both get anglicized in Cinn. I wonder if

the famed anti-german sentiment which Mencken records is responsible: the same

process which around WWI produced "liberty cabbage" for Sauerkraut &c.

calqued "Bitte!" to please and replaced "Gesundheit"with "Bless you!"



David Bergdahl     Ohio University/Athens

BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU