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The first two parts of this work, the third part of which is a dictionary of 5380 German loanwords in English, begins with a useful Introduction that provides the book with just the right setting, then goes on in Part I with An historical overview by semantic fields and, in Part II, with a Linguistic overview, which treats matters like Phonology and Graphemics, Grammar, Word-Formation Processes, Semantics, Naturalization, and Dialect.
The answer is that they are not English words but English-inspired words, inspired by expressions heard on television and by half-understood words picked up in English class, then bandied about with tilted semantics.
It may be argued that such personal semantics are more than mischievous.
As Carl Mills writes, linguistic competence includes knowledge of phonology and syntax but not semantics, a view of Leonard Bioomfield's that created many difficulties:
Solution or Semantics?