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Posted March 26, 2015
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Maxvorstadt: Nice video. They forgot "Denglish", a kind of words used in Germany which are believed to be english but in fact are not. For example the word "Handy" which means cellphone/mobile phone. Many germans believe that handy is the original american word for cell phone, so don`t wonder if some german asks you what handy do you have!
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Klumpen0815: I can imagine how this term came to be:
"Hey, what is this?"
> It's handy! <
It was more like

Exec 1: "Hey, we got this spiffy new mobile phone and you can actually use it with just one hand, unlike those old mobile phones which required an entire suitcase and the upper body strength of a gorilla. What should we call it?"
Exec 2: "Handtelephon"
Exec 1: "Seriously? Could you be more uncool?"
Exec 2: "Okay, let's call it Handy. It's like Hand but english and stylish and contemporary! And also cutesy and tiny. Like the phone."
Exec 1: "I like it! I like it a lot!
Exec 3: "Ahem... excuse me gentlemen. I just so happen to have a somewhat firm grasp of the English language and I would like to point out that the word 'handy' doesn't actually mea–"
Exec 1: "WTF? Shut up, noob!"
Exec 2: "Yeah, shut up, noob! LOL!"
Exec 1: "Can you believe this nerd?"
Exec 2: "OMG, he's like soooo not hip with the rad lingo, yo!"
Exec 1: "Yeah, FU noob!"
Exec 2: "ROFL! Pwned!"
Posted March 26, 2015
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blakstar: Well, just in case you didn't know, "ye" was never pronounced the way it looks. The "y" actually stood in for the "thorn" character.
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Randalator: That's not correct. There are in fact two versions of 'ye':

1. An actual 'ye' (pronounced [jeː] ), pronoun, 2nd person plural; it's the Middle English equivalent of our Modern English 'you'
2. What you said, example of 'Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe'
This reminds me of an interesting digression a few of us had in Ciris' 'Ban Hammer' thread a couple months ago, during the Great Spam Incursion of '15. Good times. =)
Posted March 26, 2015
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Klumpen0815: I can imagine how this term came to be:
"Hey, what is this?"
> It's handy! <
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Randalator: It was more like

Exec 1: "Hey, we got this spiffy new mobile phone and you can actually use it with just one hand, unlike those old mobile phones which required an entire suitcase and the upper body strength of a gorilla. What should we call it?"
Exec 2: "Handtelephon"
Exec 1: "Seriously? Could you be more uncool?"
Exec 2: "Okay, let's call it Handy. It's like Hand but english and stylish and contemporary! And also cutesy and tiny. Like the phone."
Exec 1: "I like it! I like it a lot!
Exec 3: "Ahem... excuse me gentlemen. I just so happen to have a somewhat firm grasp of the English language and I would like to point out that the word 'handy' doesn't actually mea–"
Exec 1: "WTF? Shut up, noob!"
Exec 2: "Yeah, shut up, noob! LOL!"
Exec 1: "Can you believe this nerd?"
Exec 2: "OMG, he's like soooo not hip with the rad lingo, yo!"
Exec 1: "Yeah, FU noob!"
Exec 2: "ROFL! Pwned!"
<span class="podkreslenie">Entstehung der Bezeichnung Handy</span>
Posted March 26, 2015
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Randalator: It was more like

Exec 1: "Hey, we got this spiffy new mobile phone and you can actually use it with just one hand, unlike those old mobile phones which required an entire suitcase and the upper body strength of a gorilla. What should we call it?"
Exec 2: "Handtelephon"
Exec 1: "Seriously? Could you be more uncool?"
Exec 2: "Okay, let's call it Handy. It's like Hand but english and stylish and contemporary! And also cutesy and tiny. Like the phone."
Exec 1: "I like it! I like it a lot!
Exec 3: "Ahem... excuse me gentlemen. I just so happen to have a somewhat firm grasp of the English language and I would like to point out that the word 'handy' doesn't actually mea–"
Exec 1: "WTF? Shut up, noob!"
Exec 2: "Yeah, shut up, noob! LOL!"
Exec 1: "Can you believe this nerd?"
Exec 2: "OMG, he's like soooo not hip with the rad lingo, yo!"
Exec 1: "Yeah, FU noob!"
Exec 2: "ROFL! Pwned!"
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Maxvorstadt: <span class="podkreslenie">Entstehung der Bezeichnung Handy</span>
I reject your reality and substitute my own...
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