The best examples that come to mind are when ordering food. As examples:

• You speak English and Spanish and are ordering a burrito
• You speak Thai and English and are ordering Tom Yum

I imagine it could depend on numerous things:
• You primary language or ethnicity
• What sort of restaurant
• Who you’re dining with
• Who you’re ordering from
• and probably a lot more…

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    It’s not objectively correct.

    If you do this between English and Japanese, Japanese people will not understand the way you pronounced the English word.

    If you ask a Japanese person if they own a “computer” they will not understand. You have to call it a “con-puuu-ta” or even “pa-so-con” which is personal computer.

    McDonald’s… Nope. “ma ku do nal do” or even just “makku” depending on the region.

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      If you ask a Japanese person if they own a “computer” they will not understand. You have to call it a “con-puuu-ta” or even “pa-so-con” which is personal computer.

      In Thai it’s just ‘com’.

      If you’re ready for the bill at a restaurant it’s ’check bin’ which for some reason is ‘check’ and ‘bill’ combined. When I first learned this people were confused why I didn’t already know it, “but it’s English?!”

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        These wrong loanwords are always so weird! German has a ton of those, e.g. “trainer” is a coach, and “handy” is a cellphone. Add all the false friends because of the similar origins of German and English (even the latin-derived words often have completely different meanings) and it becomes a huge mess to untangle when you’re learning English as a native German speaker or vice versa.

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          “Trainer” probably would work just fine in US English but I can see what it wouldn’t with British English. Of course that only makes things more complicated…

          “Handy” definitely does not work in U.S. English especially using it as a noun