It's funny how "delicatessen" in German is "Feinkost" and "double entendre" in French is "double sens". (Though sure, both world be understood in French/German.) Does anyone else know any other "loan words" which were not just loaned, but stolen?
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Swiss german does weird stuff to english and i catch myself regularily confusing englishspeaker with me using them. Beamer for projector and Handy for cellphones.
Ah, I forgot about "beamer". I've heard that in more than one place in Europe...
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Is "Handy" a loanword, though, and not an independent modification of "[die] Hand"?
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I would assume it does come from something about "handtelefon" but no clue.
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I *think* it's also the same in dutch?
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