• DonLongSchlong@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 days ago

    “Up arrow on the handy”

    Do you mean the shift key on your smart phone keyboard? Handy means something different in english 🙃

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      8 days ago

      Easy way to spot a German speaker, no one else uses that term to refer to a mobile phone. The adoption of these sorts of pseudo-anglicisms into various languages is actually quite common.