Talk:apfelsaft

RFV discussion: December 2021–January 2022
No hits for queries like "one apfelsaft", "two apfelsafts" etc. --Fytcha (talk) 00:03, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
 * That's because liquids are generally uncountable in English- searching for "zwei Apfelsäfte" gives you all of 6 Google Books hits, so why should English be different? You can find a decent number of examples by searching "of apfelsaft", and even a few with "an apfelsaft". That said, it's tricky sorting out the code-switching- even if they get the capitalization wrong they may be using a German word to remind readers that the story is taking place in a German-speaking setting, or to otherwise remind them of German-speaking countries. For many of these, the implication is that the dialogue is really in German, but translated into English so the mostly non-German-speaking readers can understand it. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:11, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I still fail to find valid attestations despite better search queries. All occurrences in English texts that I've found seem to be either code-switching (mostly in travel books but also in texts about Germany by Germans), immediately or previously glossed, or even used as a brand name. Most occurrences are in italics. Fytcha (talk) 02:07, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 22:35, 12 January 2022 (UTC)