Thread:User talk:Catsidhe/Das Deutsch/reply

I looked some more at the page, which says (bcz it's on an English-language collection of "sites", apparently)
 * German Language Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for speakers of German wanting to discuss the finer points of the language and translation.

despite all the discussion being conducted in German. You might be interested that translation into German is "in Deutsch", and (i guess i was careless) for example, "... im deutschen Gebrauch..." would, i think, be correct for "... in German-language usage...". The word "im" is a contraction of "in dem" ("in the", with dative case reflected), and there are places (of course, i guess) where they expect a definite article but we would find its use there stilted. There are a lot of cases subtle enuf that it stopped being fun to read them. (BTW, you might, as a more serious lexicographer than i, be interested in Duden which describes a great example of deutsche Grundlichkeit or German thoroughness; the participants in the GLSE keep saying "Look, here's what Duden has about yet another special case.")  Thanks again,