[Merlinius]

The Spanish and French seem to care very much about their language and many people disapprove of "spoiling" it by using foreign terms. While there are many people in Germany who think this way too, the younger people - which most of the online players can be counted to - are much more open to english terms and use them rather frequently in everyday language, especially when it comes to technical language.

I think this is one of the main reasons for this. If you went to a German casino and talked to a poker player who has been playing for more than a couple of years, it is very likely he won't use english terms at all.

Plus, you have to consider that online poker has been promoted by very few sources only and it happened that they mainly used english terms so that they somehow spread and everybody who was new to poker learned the english terms and got used to them. If these sources had used german terms from the beginning, maybe all of us would use them now.