[gcruse]

 This flood of phony
European words and ideas
confuses our own thinking

Maybe yours.  I personally
can't think of words to replace
rendezvous, zugzwang, gestalt,
without paragraphs of exposition.
And you do know the derivation
of Capitol, right?

Oh, don't get me started on
laissez-faire, ya'll.

[T'wit]

What is tendentious about "rendezvous" [a borrowing from the fur trade, if I'm not mistaken] or "Capitol" [Latin]? English is full of foreign borrowings. That's no problem. I am objecting to ideological words based on unsound thought -- the lexicon of Marxism, for instance. "Bourgeoisie," "the masses," "proletariat," and many more such terms are groupthink words that do not fit an individualist reality or the philosophy of liberty.

[George Smiley]

Don't forget two that are particularly apropos to this discussion: Schadenfreude und Weltanschauung.

Oh, Vergessen Sie nicht das Wort "Angst".