4 ms·
> E.g. Handy for smartphone For clarity, we already called them Handy when they were phones but not smart.
by jhoechtl 2y ago
> E.g. Handy for smartphone
For clarity, we already called them Handy when they were phones but not smart.
- chromanoid 2y agoThat's right, and I think Smartphone is actually competing with the good old word Handy, at least in the marketing department. I guess "Ich suche mein Smartphone." sounds somehow too snobbish in most casual contexts.
- chrisdhoover 2y agoA handy means something entirely different in the US
- dash2 2y agoAn English chap once asked a US friend of mine for a cigarette, or as he innocently put it, "Can I bum a fag?"
- aloe_falsa 2y agoAs someone who knows English and is learning German, the words "Handy" for smartphone, or "Beamer" for overhead projector, or "Oldtimer" for classic car all sound very out of place. Even hearing "das Baby" for a nursing-age baby (instead of the German "Säugling") sounds a bit weird. I guess it's different when you grew up with those words and internalized them.