Did you mean Sprachgefühl?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A feeling for language; an ear for the idiomatically correct or appropriate.
Wiktionary
- n. the instinctive or intuitive grasp of the natural idiom of a language
Etymologies
- German : Sprache, language (from Middle High German sprāche, from Old High German sprāhha) + Gefühl, feeling (from fühlen, to feel, from Middle High German vuelen, from Old High German vuolen; see pāl- in Indo-European roots).
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Word Words
This used to be my nym list, but there are so many words about words, I think it's time to expand and open.
acronym, antonym, aptronym, autoantonym, autonym, bacronym, capitonym, contranym, contronym, eponym, exonym, heteronym and 120 more...
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Tricky Words from German
Loanwords from German -- some established, some wet behind the ears -- that are difficult to spell, pronounce, or remember.
Torschlusspanik, Fräulein, weltanschauung, Weltschmerz, sprachgefühl, schadenfreude, katzenjammer, Radfahrer, gemütlich, zeitgeist, gesellschaft, gemeinschaft and 48 more...
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Metawords
Talking about talking, writing about writing, etc.
epizeuxis, tautological, aptote, bibliophagist, parataxis, scriptorium, aposiopesis, variorum, chantefable, boustrophedon, psellism, adoxography and 20 more...
reesetee That's not just festive, frindley--that's a veritable carnival! Nov 13, 2008
frindley Nøw, nøw, døn't discriminåtë ågåinst øther Nørdic diåcriticåls! Nov 13, 2008
dontcry �? ägrëë - möst fëstïvë ïndëëd! Nov 13, 2008
reesetee *pondering*
Nöööö...stïll fëstïvë. ;-) Nov 13, 2008
wytukaze Festive, or metal? I'm quite fond of the phenomenon that is the heavy metal umlaut. Especially when Germans pronounce the bandnames that have them.
Röck and röll! Bëër! Sëx! Drügs! Dreämy düskywing! Nov 13, 2008
reesetee They do seem to make words a bit more festive. Nov 12, 2008
dontcry Yöü dön't säÿ? Nov 12, 2008
mcritz Anything German and/or containing umlauts gets high marks in my book. Nov 12, 2008
wytukaze Actually, they're likely to be split over three variants—the one with the umlaut intact (sprachgefühl), the one without (sprachgefuhl), and the entumlautet (that is to say, de-umlauted) version done ‘correctly’: sprachgefuehl. Quite an issue, then. Nov 12, 2008
gangerh Such a lovely word and meaning and I was going to second it as a Wordie flagship word but you've just identified a handicap, sionnach. So unsuchencumbered schadenfreudgeon then. Apr 23, 2008
sionnach This raises the interesting issue, that words with an umlaut, like this one, automatically must get shafted in the frequency count, since their occurrences are likely to be split over two variants. Apr 23, 2008
mollusque Also listed as sprachgefuhl. Apr 23, 2008
ofravens This is the most perfect word ever. Why does English not have more words like this? Apr 20, 2008
adoarns Love how so many old-skool linguistic terms are from DEU. Dec 17, 2007
angharad lit. language feeling: "an ear for idiomatically appropriate language"
http://wordsmith.org/words/sprachgefuhl.html Dec 2, 2006