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
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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
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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).
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