It was getting very popular to use English words in the German language, mainly by people, who want to look cool, modern and up to date. Yes, it's often not to avoid, because the orign German word is unusual, but it sucks, if you mix up the language to much.

It's a question of balance, you can say. If you would try to avoid any forein "immigrated" word or term, it would sound very strange and the people wouldn't understand you.
During the Nazi-time and also in East Germany, the GDR, it was tried sometimes to avoid foreign-based words and to create own German terms, but this was never accepted by the citizens.

The main foreign based words nowadays are English, but there are also some French and -mainly in the German East- some Russian or Polish terms "immigrated"
If you see it historical, the most European languages, German, too, are based on Latin and Greek.

The dialect at the German North Sea-coast includes many more English words than the official German (and is a bit similar to Dutch, too). This was a result, because from the coast there were always a lot of sailors, who had brought home also words from their trips around the world.


One example, how a foreign word is used in a different meaning than the original one: in German a mobile-phone ("cellular-phone" in America, am I right?) is called "Handy". An English term, but with a total different meaning.