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Some non-English languages are importing English words/phrases when the English one represents an idea that it's a bit more complicated to express in the non-En
by 323 5y ago
Some non-English languages are importing English words/phrases when the English one represents an idea that it's a bit more complicated to express in the non-English language. I'm not talking about technical terms.
Random example: "work/life balance"
- School-Cotton 5y agoI have seen “people of color” used (untranslated) in German magazine articles.
- Hamuko 5y agoI think I've heard (and most likely used) "by the way" in otherwise completely non-English sentences.
- vba616 5y agoI remember little from French class in junior high, but I do remember "Q: Comment ça va? A: Ça va." It struck me many years later, that people at work were saying almost a literal translation in English: "How goes it?" "It goes." To my knowledge, they weren't Francophones and I never heard any French there.