On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 11:54:34PM +0100, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 
> > > Using English words in German sentences a lot has its own name:
> > > speaking Denglish.
> >
> > Interesting.  That's more anglified than the
> > French equivalent, which is "franglais".
> >
> > Dunno whether that's indicative of where the
> > needle is on the lang-mix dial. ;-)
> 
> Maybe.  The real German word is "Denglisch", not "Denglish" (I tried to
> translate it...)
> 
> So comparing Denglisch with
>              De ut sch
> 
> "Denglisch" actually still shares 5/9 > 50% of characters with the word
> "Deutsch".  But OTOH it sounds just as "Englisch" with a "D" added to
> the front.  So your analysis is correct I think.

Back to topic (Emacs ;-)

  (string-distance "Denglisch" "Deutsch")
  => 4
  (string-distance "Denglisch" "English")
  => 3

Cheers
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t