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> and english as spoken in Europe, for which many words are not known to native english speakers. Have some examples of these english words that native english
by acchow 7y ago
> and english as spoken in Europe, for which many words are not known to native english speakers.
Have some examples of these english words that native english speakers wouldn't know?
- pyrale 7y agoYou can find some at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pseudo-anglicism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pseudo-anglicism. Even more of them can be found in business language, which did not become loan words.
- dfawcus 7y agoCorporate speak: 'leverage' when 'use' is perfectly functional, and less of a mouthful. Only occasionally is it used in a sense when a magnifying effect is implied.
- Narishma 7y agoSame thing for 'performant' instead of 'fast'.
- magic_beans 7y agoWhat a fascinating rabbit hole.
- pgcj_poster 7y agoInterestingly this also exists in the reverse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-French_words_adapted_to_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-French_words_ad...
- pgcj_poster 7y agoI once had someone ask me what the "preterite" of a certain verb was. I was able to guess what she meant, but I definitely did not know that word from my experience speaking English.
- taejo 7y agoThis is kind of a borderline case, since the term "preterite" is recognized by English grammarians as a synonym of "simple past tense", but to use it probably is an influence by e.g. German Präteritum or French prétérit (which seems to be used in teaching English even though the syntactically corresponding French verb form is called the "simple past").