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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"ciao" is only for goodbye in French. American seems to drink coffee, but it's clearly not the same think as our café. And we call ristretto what an Italian believes to be a normal coffee. We use "marketing" as a verb. And it's more communication than marketing here.
This is quite a list! I take no responsibility for "entrée" or "maître d'", which are Americanisms, though.
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there must a lot of other. We don't say "déjà vu" alone, for ex. (But "comme une impression de déjà vu") :) And many more, certainly. (There was a short hype around using "bon week" to tell "have a nice weekend", but I hope that that heresy burnt in the hell it came from)
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still, maître d' is really unsettling. I'm somehow relieved it's from the USA.
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