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To: SeekAndFind
For "Orient" and "Occident," the German language offers two wonderfully evocative words: "das Morgenland" and "das Abendland," respectively.

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49 posted on 09/29/2014 11:21:57 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Do Germans call Asians Asiaten? or Orientalisch?


50 posted on 09/29/2014 11:38:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: alexander_busek

Speaking of Germans, Metternich said that “Asia begins at the Landstrasse” (a street in Vienna leading in the direction of Hungary).


53 posted on 09/29/2014 12:26:23 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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