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Getting fit should come with a health warning, warns PJM. "In my pursuit of the body beautiful, I've broken three exercise bikes and two running machines, concussed myself and, most distressingly, bruised my testicles." And he's yet to try and get out of his contract...

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Technically speaking you're both right
Angst is a German, Danish, Norwegian and Dutch word for fear or anxiety.

Cheers wikipedia!
(I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 15 Jul 2009, 10:46, 1 reply)
It was introduced into the lexicon...
by 19th century Danish writer, theologian, and early existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. The term was then adopted into German by the early phenomenologists - notably Husserl and Jaspers.

I think.

It's Danish in origin, either way.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 10:50, closed)
the philiosophiocal term
is used differently from the everyday term though, I believe.

You spelled 'phenomenologists' wrong.
(I helped save b3ta! crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 10:52, closed)
That doesn't alter the fact that it's Danish.
:)

EDIT: ninja'd. And re-ninja'd, because I got it wrong again. Bollocks. You wouldn't know that my PhD was essentially on phenomenology, would you?

EDIT 2: And we both know that I don't have much time for appeals to the everyday use of words...
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 11:05, closed)
It's Danish and it's also German.

(I helped save b3ta! crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 11:52, closed)
Well, tracing it back, I'd go with Germanic myself.
Damn I've let my linguistic history slide.

/Edit...

Oooooh you're looking at the philosophical side, I'm looking at the linguistic side. And, from the reading of the question it does say language as opposed to philosophy.
(I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 15 Jul 2009, 10:55, closed)
The word is Danish.
It has cognates in German, for sure - but it's a Danish word...
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 11:04, closed)
And there was me thinking it was English.
Cool, I've been speaking Danish without even knowing.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 11:38, closed)
As a fluent germanist
Angst is definatly a german word for worry or dread, it may also be a danish word, but the question is correct...
(badgerlikespeed, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 11:42, closed)
I agree
The question is correct.

It's also a cracking song by Eisbrecher.
I suggest you all go and listen to it.

Right now.
(I helped save b3ta! scoshi pretending to diet since, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 12:11, closed)
Following some further research:
Angst: Introduced from Danish angst via existentialist Søren Kierkegaard, from Middle High German angest, from Old High German angust. See Proto-Indo-European *angh-. Also related to the German Angst.
(badgerlikespeed, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 11:49, closed)
Well done Wikipedia...

(I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 15 Jul 2009, 12:02, closed)
Actually
wikidictionary ;)
(badgerlikespeed, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 12:04, closed)

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