Re: what's this german word ?

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:51:28 GMT, John Atkinson
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sci.lang:

"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

I've never seen ['Schadenfreude'] lowercased -- nor Gestalt; and
Festschrift very rarely.

'Gestalt' is very frequently lowercased in English.

My impression is that "gestalt" is always (?) uppercased
in the expression "the Gestalt theory" (in psychology),

'Always' is always(!) dangerous, but that's also my
impression.

where it's arguably thought of as either +foreign or
+(proper noun),

The latter, I think.

but (like "schadenfreude") is typically lowercased when
used as an ordinary noun.

Definitely, and in my experience even more predictably than
<Schadenfreude>. (I think. I read enough German that my
memory may not be reliable here.)

Brian
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