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Of those, the only one I found surprising was yubikey. My favorite type of loanword is ones that native speakers don't know is a loanword. Fun fact: the "honch
by sbierwagen 4y ago
Of those, the only one I found surprising was yubikey.
My favorite type of loanword is ones that native speakers don't know is a loanword. Fun fact: the "honcho" from "head honcho" is from 班長, "hancho", squad leader.
- pezezin 4y agoI live in Japan, I convinced my Japanese bosses to buy a bunch of yubikeys, I make yubitsume all the time... and even then we didn't realize the connection
- unwind 4y agoUh, you amputate parts of your little finger [1] all the time? That sounds ... rather horrible and I really do hope there's some usage shift that I'm missing. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yubitsume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yubitsume