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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"Showmaster" in German, when the proper English word is "show host" or "entertainer". Germans say "Ich mache home office" , but it's "I'm working from home" in American English. "Home office"= a room designed for that purpose, which most work-from-homers don't even have.
"Home office" was in use in Britain, from what I remember of the nineties, though I haven't heard it much since...
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Relatedly, can you think of any words loaned to German which *partially* Germanize the pronunciation? For example, "Orangensaft" retains the soft "g" from EN/FR, but the vowels are German. I thought there were others, but can't think of them at the moment...
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I think it's depends on the region. Prussians have adapted many words from French, so you'll find many words pronounced with hard consonants and German vowels. "Ensemble" (as in orchestra) = Angssambel, "Sanssouci" = Sangssussi.
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You're probably right about the timing aspect. "Home office" in the 90s likely meant a physical workstation at home - cable/modem internet, printer, landline phone, fax... Whereas none of this is required for today's WFH.
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Yes, that makes a lot of sense... my father had all of those things in his home office!
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