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English is weird
cesium133:
"The future will be better tomorrow." -- Dan Quayle
snubnose:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 04 Sep 2019, 12:14 ---German even gets weirder - the colloquial term for mobile phone is "Handy" - and that's pronounced English, like in "that comes in handy". I honestly have no idea where the term comes from, and there are a few urban legends - but none I know incorporates English.
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Yep.
And many germans, including me, mistake that for an adoption of an english word, and have to remind ourselves the english word is actually cellphone or smartphone.
snubnose:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 05 Sep 2019, 07:18 ---TBH, out of context "Rechner" means calculator.
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No.
"Rechner" means computer.
Calculator is called "Taschenrechner" (translated word by word: pocket computer).
Never heard anyone shortening "Taschenrechner" to just "Rechner".
Cornelius:
Afrikaans follows the same logic, and has rekenaar and sakrekenaar for computer and calculator.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 20 Feb 2020, 03:28 ---Never heard anyone shortening "Taschenrechner" to just "Rechner".
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Well, must be a regional thing then. Colloquial shortening.
Point is, German has no differentiation of "compute" and "calculate", whatever the difference may actually be.
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