It's a compound word. Sprach means speak. I do not know the meaning of
gebrausch.
Hope
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From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:04 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: This doesn't look like English to me!
I think Julie recognized the title as being German but meant to call attention to the fact that, although "in German" appears in parentheses after the title further down in the description it says the language of the book is English. The problem is that tone of voice doesn't come across in emails often, though I read her "It doesn't sound like English to me" as being humorously sarcastic -- or ironic.
I put the title into Google, realizing that it's a book and we could find it. I wish I'd thought of that simple maneuver before calling on my husband for help (he had German upteen years ago) and spending time looking up words in our German-English dictionary (sprachgebrauch did not appear, nor did it appear in online German-English dictionaries)
But the translation of the book title is "Special literature to development tendencies of the German modern language: Grammar (morphology and syntax) (in German)
Hubby and I did figure out that it was a German Grammar of some kind. To put it in less awkward terms, it seems to be an advanced (we did get that word from the title, and the word "usage" from the synopsis) German grammar. I suspect either Pratik or Guido or both can explain better.
Cindy--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Auf gut deutsch gesagt: Ein Sprachbrevier für Fortgeschrittene (in German) by Rudolf Walter Leonhardt Quality: Excellent, almost no errors. Language: English Synopsis: Sprachgebrauch wird ebenso bestimmt von objektiven Regeln wie von subjektivem Stilgefühl. Der Meister darf die Form zerbrechen. Copyright Date: 1983 Available Formats: DAISY BRF Can anyone tell me what this is? It's on the New Books page and certainly isn't English, although it's labeled as such! Take care. Julie Morales inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Windows/MSN Messenger (but not email): mercy0421@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: mercy0421
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