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That’s really interesting thanks for sharing As a German native speaker reading the first few examples this just sounds a lot like literal translations from Ge
by leonhard 4y ago
That’s really interesting thanks for sharing
As a German native speaker reading the first few examples this just sounds a lot like literal translations from German that I hear a lot of German speakers use when their English level isn’t that advanced (as I often perceive it to be the case for politicians as well) or only used at work and not gained from using/being exposed to English in native/cultural contexts:
Actor – Aktoren (commonly used fancy word in German government communication)
Actorness (not a direct translation but very common in German to make any noun into a different one through pre-/suffixes)
Actual – aktuell (means current and definitely not actual)
Adequate – adequat (means appropriate and definitely not adequate)
- jraph 4y agoSame for French: - Acteur - Actuel - Adéquat (we don't have anything like actorness to my knowledge though) What did they think if actual does not come from German nor French? :-)