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Originally Posted by Renate
So, I'm reading, "Die Arbeiter", Martin Becker. (That's a German definite article there.)
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Apropos of nothing at all really, but since the only language I've ever considered myself bilingual in was German (pre orthography reforms!
), it's long fascinated me than in both Korean and Japanese "Arbeit" has been imported with a very specific, narrow meaning - part-time work, as in high schoolers working at convenience stores.