Re: Inkhorns are a fascinating linguistic phenomenon, ...

 Ar an séú lá déag de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh jerryfriedman:

 > On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 6:19:10 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

 > > One of the reasons I listen to MDR Sachsen’s „Hausarztsprechstunde“
 > > https://www.mdr.de/sachsenradio/programm/ratgeber/hausarztsprechstunde100.html
 > > is for the non-jargon vocabulary. (It’s a radio programme aimed at the
 > > general public.) Like, of course I know that a pneumothorax is a
 > > Pneumothorax, but what’s equivalent to “collapsed lung” when speaking to
 > > non-medical patients?
 >
 > Do you practice in a German-speaking country?  Or in an English-
 > speaking country where you see so many German-speaking
 > patients that you need to know such things?

I practice in an English-speaking country in an area that gets plenty of German
tourists. But my main motivation is that German is a language I value and I
want to get better at it.

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