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08 Feb 03 - 08:15 PM (#885807) Subject: BS: German word for cultural affinity? From: Sam L Anyone know a German word for having an affinity for a culture other than one's own? And maybe a more exact definition of it? thanks |
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08 Feb 03 - 08:23 PM (#885812) Subject: RE: BS: German word for cultural affinity? From: toadfrog Walhlverwandtschaft means a chosen affinity. That might be a start, since such an affinity would be one of choice. |
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09 Feb 03 - 07:14 AM (#885981) Subject: RE: BS: German word for cultural affinity? From: Wilfried Schaum In my pocket dictionary I find for affinity: tendency, (spiritual) relation. I would say: Kulturverwandschaft. (Hello, Toadfrog: the candidate got 89 points.) In German the culture is often named with an added -philie (from the Greek stem *phil = friend, love &c. as in Philadelphia = brotherly love). So we have Hellenophilie = love to Greece, Greeks or Greek culture, Turkophilie = to the Turks, Anglophilie = the the English speaking (incl. Welsh, Scots, Irish, Americans &c.) and so on. Wilfried |
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09 Feb 03 - 09:42 AM (#886023) Subject: RE: BS: German word for cultural affinity? From: Jim McLean Anglophile means lover of the English only. How else would McDiarmid describe himself as an Anglophobe? We also have AnlgoIrish, AngloScottish etc. JIm McLean |
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09 Feb 03 - 09:55 AM (#886035) Subject: RE: BS: German word for cultural affinity? From: Sam L I believe that's it, Wilfried, seems to ring right with my fading memory. Thanks. But Greek notwithstanding, how would one call people who just love Hellen? Maybe Hellenaphilie. |
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10 Feb 03 - 03:24 AM (#886576) Subject: RE: Folklore: German word for cultural affinity? From: Wilfried Schaum Hi Jim, thanks for the correction, so we could construct Scotophilia for the love of all things Scottish (or Scotch). The first o in the word is most important (Greek joke, by the way). Hi Fred, Helen(a) with only one L! Otherwise you're right. Addition: If the love to a foreign culture becomes a frenzy, the part -philie is replaced by -manie = mania. Wilfried |