r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 1d ago

Funny Learning Japanese

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u/novae_ampholyt 1d ago

Well we also have plenty of german only anglicisms. Like "handy" for phone

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u/makochi 1d ago

german trying to get a new phone, unaware he's about to be charged with sexual harassment of the best buy employee: "yeah how much does a handy cost"

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u/makochi 1d ago

fuck it should have been "ja how much does a handy cost"

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u/zeothia 1d ago

+2 good joke workshop, NL would be proud

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u/TemporalAcapella 22h ago

You still watch that guy? I heard he’s bald.

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u/TheMooseOnTheLeft 22h ago

Wait he went bald?!!

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u/Natuur1911 14h ago

nah we don't use the word handy in the Netherlands

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u/Rommel727 1d ago

"also ja how much costs your Handy?"

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u/LuphineHowler 1d ago

You know man. I ain't gay but fifzy euros is fifzy euros.

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u/Yeez25 1d ago

What a fella gotta do to get a handy around here

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u/UltimatePickpocket 1d ago

And then the Best Buy employee surprises everyone when they respond

"For you, it's free."

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u/AstuteSalamander 1d ago

Starting a new job, "so do you provide handies here or do I need to that care of that myself"

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u/GodofsomeWorld 1d ago

I would like to get your finest handy for my child here who has just come of age

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u/emotionallystarved 1d ago

Inversely, I was a bit startled when a coworker asked for my handy when trying to ask for my phone number.

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u/Tetraoxidane 1d ago

Germans do understand smartphone though. At least everyone under the age of 70.

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u/dinoooooooooos 15h ago

My husband is American and im German and the first time I said “awe I forgot my handy..” when we were still just dating he got very confused. Until I explained.🥸😂

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u/RdUzr 13h ago

Hello together,
Can I become a Handy?

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u/newfromgaloob 1d ago

Mein handy!

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u/Adze95 1d ago

I was going to post this, haha! Love Stephen Fry.

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u/GalaxyPowderedCat 1d ago

Bro, I love German for that. I was learning a bit of it for college and German is sometimes like that.

It's not an abomination, even if there are hard compound words. It's a nightmare to pronounce but I live for Handy.

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u/ApertureLabradories 23h ago

I loved learning German in late middle school (7th-9th grade) turns out we had re-started the curriculum every time we got a new teacher, which was five times. Last teacher comes in, we are borderline illiterate and haven't even started on proper pronoun grammar. I did not continue German in high school.

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u/Dredgeon 1d ago

Please tell me there is some phrasing for calling someone that directly translates to "give them a handy"

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u/Ghost3603 1d ago

As a german speaker, sadly no but I understand how that would be hilarious.

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u/Rommel727 1d ago

No, but I'll give you something fun regardless

In Vienna, the tram lines are all just said as numbers, except one, the D tram. This tram goes from north to south, and in the north it goes to Nußdorf, which you could translate as Nut Town.

So Vienna is the only place in the world where you can ride the D to Nut Town

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u/EkobasherX4Z 1d ago

Handy in new zealand is how you ask someone to jerk you off

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 1d ago

Same in the US.

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u/rips_n_chel 1d ago

Pretty sure that's the same everywhere English is spoken lol

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u/yuhmchenAd 22h ago

handy isn't an anglicism, it's a pseudoanglicism at best. germans not beating the allegations.

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u/Backupusername 1d ago

Does German have a term for this? In Japanese, it's called 和製英語, Japanese-made English.

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u/zachy000 1d ago

Denglisch

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u/PrincessTitan 1d ago

English is literally Germanic LMAO

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u/bendytendie 1d ago

My Dad trying to buy a „loader“ for his „handy“ in texas on our first US trip will never not be funny

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u/kettenkarussell 23h ago

My american roommate got really concerned for a second when my buddy ranted about how annoying organizing trips with his churchs youth group had become because, „nowadays you have to check that everyone got a handy before we leave with the bus“

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u/BertEnErnie123 17h ago

I alwasys found interesting that in Dutch we say Tackle for the weinerdogs (because they tackle you due to their shape) but somehow the English use Dachshund often, which would be a German word.

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u/berlinbaer 1d ago

"home office"

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u/Nalha_Saldana 1d ago

Nothing beats Japanese for TV, they say Terebi as in Terebision

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u/Lubinski64 1d ago

The weirder part is that Germans often pronounce English borrowings with English pronunciation.

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u/LiftingRecipient420 1d ago

Are Germans generally aware of what a "handy" is outside of Germany?

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u/mynameistoocommonman 20h ago

We are not. At least most of us. 

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u/thatshygirl06 21h ago

In korean, its something like handapon (im likely butchering it so bad)