Post #1062634
2026-02-15 02:09 UTC
@debcha
All languages do that. One of my favourite loan words in the English language is the word "Kindergarten". English didn't have one for that concept. It was introduced by (if I recall correctly) settlers and so they just named it what they used to call it in their origin language. And all others not having a word of their own just tried to read the word from the others and thereby changed the pronunciation ever so slightly.
The longer ago it is the more the words change.
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@agowa338@chaos.social 2026-02-15 02:12
@debcha@saturation.social And in the German language the word "Handy" (which means cellphone) I guess someone was like "take new invention will get in handy" and then it got shortened to "Handy" by someone that didn't speak English (that well) but kept hearing that word over and over again in that context and assumed it was what this thing is called. So it stuck Looking up the origin of words is kinda interesting and I do it from time to time. However most of the time the WHY isn't really discoverable for me.