In response to Germany's Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer suggesting that employees not use foreign words such as "der Laptop", U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has suggested that employees respond to fellow workers sneezes with "Bless you" rather than "Gesundheit".
"Der laptop? Nein, nein", Deutsches Presse-Agentur as reported by the Star Tribune, 2010-12-30
Hm! Has somebody started a rumor? If I go to either www.dpa.com or www.dpa.de and search for "laptop", I get "Kein Suchergebnisse" - "no search 'whatever'". Besides, the Star Tribune is not using richtig Deutsche; it should be "Der Laptop?" Nouns are almost always capitalized in German.
Mein Deutschekunnigheit? Nicht so gut! Ich habe zu viel vergessen:(
