• Maeve
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    1 month ago

    At first thought it was inadvertently hitting the “up” arrow on the handy, TIL.

    • DonLongSchlong
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      1 month ago

      “Up arrow on the handy”

      Do you mean the shift key on your smart phone keyboard? Handy means something different in english 🙃

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        30 days ago

        Easy way to spot a German speaker, no one else uses that term to refer to a mobile phone. The adoption of these sorts of pseudo-anglicisms into various languages is actually quite common.