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| mintgreennova Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6186 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, German | Message 17 of 62 20 December 2007 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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"un bowling" a bowling alley in French, has always bothered me greatly for some reason. I still automatically translate it to "a bowling"
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| Conchita Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie Spain Joined 6178 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: French*, Spanish*, English, German Studies: Italian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese | Message 18 of 62 26 December 2007 at 6:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In Spanish they've made up English-sounding words like 'puenting' for 'bungee jumping' ('puente' means 'bridge') or 'footing' for 'jogging', to give two famous examples.
Another false borrowing could be 'autoestop', which means 'hitch-hiking' and which is also spelt 'autostop' as in French. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| wanchanken Diglot Newbie Argentina Joined 6184 days ago 27 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2 Studies: Esperanto, Mandarin | Message 19 of 62 27 December 2007 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Another false borrowing in Spanish is 'shopping' (when refering to a mall).
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| Conchita Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie Spain Joined 6178 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: French*, Spanish*, English, German Studies: Italian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese | Message 20 of 62 27 December 2007 at 6:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
The term 'shopping' isn't normally used in Spain, though, but I wouldn't mind if it was -- It would certainly be less of a mouthful than 'centro comercial'! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6775 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes  1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 21 of 62 28 December 2007 at 1:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
Interesting thread. Russian has quite a few of these.
Russian has exactly the same thing. Maybe it has reached Russian via French.
As for 'puenting', I remember seeing a skit where Russian verbs were used with the -ing suffix, to give them an English feel. Some others I can think of in Russian are: вокзал ("Vauxhall") = "a train station" бутсы ("boots") = "cleats" курс ("course") = "a school(college)-year" тайм ("time") = "a half of a (football/soccer) game" митинг ("meeting") = "a political rally" Edited by Russianbear on 28 December 2007 at 1:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| justinwilliams Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6689 days ago 321 posts - 327 votes 3 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Italian | Message 22 of 62 28 December 2007 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Une cupple in Quebecois. We use it to mean some arbitrary number of something...une cupple de maisons for example. But in English it means 2. There's probably thousands more but I can't think of any.
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| Conchita Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie Spain Joined 6178 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: French*, Spanish*, English, German Studies: Italian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese | Message 23 of 62 29 December 2007 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
Do you pronounce it like the English word? Incidentally, 'a couple' in English can also mean more than two things. Sorry if this is off-topic, but of all the French accents in the world, I enjoy the Canadian variety the most. Number two could be Provençal French. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| justinwilliams Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6689 days ago 321 posts - 327 votes 3 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Italian | Message 24 of 62 04 January 2008 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well then I guess it doesn't qualify as a pseudo anglicism! But yeah people pronounce it more or less the English way.
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