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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...budget. What can she do? Possibly nine-tenths of the population of the world are millionaires in German eyes. Then they must be taxed. This cannot be done, but a brilliant Hun thought put a wonderful scheme of taxing foreign words. Thus if anybody prefers "hotel" for " gasthof," "coiffeur" for " haarkünstler," " restaurant " for " wirtschaft," he must pay for offending the populace with these horrid, florid words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Foreign Words Taboo | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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