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   Jon Worth (jon@gruene.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 09:54:20 JST Jon Worth

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   • Sten

   @stenhaastrup Sure, all languages have them to a greater or lesser extent. But Germans criticising an American publication for a faux-German expression is really off, that's all!

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     Sten (stenhaastrup@eupolicy.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 09:54:29 JST Sten

     @jon

     Danish has "speeder" = accelerator (in a car) and "butterfly" = bowtie. The first has always puzzled me, the last makes me smile.

     Italian gave us "i social" to refer to social media in general, and "lo smart working" for working from home.

     A bit of digging revealed that wikipedia has a whole page of examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-anglicism