discuss problems of le stress, over a glass of le whiky, during le weekend. The Germans really love to adopt foreign words, especially English ones, in their language. Words like 'Bungee-jumping', 'Rollerskates', 'Playstation', 'Skate-board', 'Mountainbike' and 'Walkman' have become more and more a part of the German vocabulary.
             A special kind of borrowing is called loan-translation, or calque, which means that each individual meaningful part (morpheme) of a word is translated literally and put together as a new word. A very good example is un gratteciel, a French term, whose literal in comparison to its exact translation 'skyscraper' would be a 'scrape-sky'. Furthermore the English term superman is a loan-translation of the German word Übermensch. Not at least the expression loan-word itself is probably derived from the German term Lehnwort. Nowadays, some Spanish speakers eat perros calientes (literally 'dogs hot'), or hot dogs.
             In some examples we have just considered, that the joining of two separate words often produces a neologism with a single form. In German, as we have seen, the words Lehn and Wort are combined to produce Lehnwort. This process of combining or joining, technically known as compounding, is in contrast to languages like French and Spanish frequently used in languages like German and English. Furthermore it can be found in languages like Hmong, which is spoken in South East Asia.
             English examples would be bookcase, doorknob, waterbed
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