Do other languages use slang from english? Or vice versa?

[Xanikk999]

I always wondered this. Would french people ever say dude or cool while speaking french or do they have a word for it in french?

I dont know much slang and i know the above examples are hardly slang so maybe someone could help out?

 

[adherence.]

French has an abundance of colloquial anglicisms, at least Quebecois French.

 

[Xanikk999]

French has an abundance of colloquial anglicisms, at least Quebecois French.

What does colloqyual and anglicism mean?

 

[adherence.]

Colloquial = term to describe informal speech
Anglicism = word borrowed from English into another language

 

[Guangxi]

as for vice versa, "uber" from geman.
edit: used as slang, it isnt slang in german i dont think

 

[Tomoyo]

I thought an Anglicism was a word in English borrowed from another language? The verb Anglicize means "to turn into English," so Anglicism should mean something that has been turned into English. An English word borrowed into French would be a... a... umm... I don't know.

I don't think that any other languages would borrow English slang and use it as slang. However, many languages have borrowed regular English words and used those as slang in the language.

 

[Cheetah]

Let's just say that "cool" is more or less a norwegian word now (Though it is spelt "kul" or "kult", depending on the rest of the sentence).

But yes we do. A big number of English words are used in norwegian. And this has been going on forever realy. Just think of words like "pizza" and "ok", which are used by everyone and has been here for several decades. And of course, we pick up a lot of words from French, German and Swedish as well.

But new English words and phrases are easily picked up, through music, movies, tv-series, etc. We may have been described as the last communist state in Europe (a tad exagerated, but it was a Swede who said it...), but we're also very Americanized. And the younger one is, the more English and American words and phrases are used in daily life.

And with the popularity of SMS's and Internet chatting, a lot of abbrevations are sometimes used as well.

If you were to look at the most used "bad" words in Norway, you would probably find that the F-word is quite popular.

 

[Xanikk999]

From engrish websites, i hear the F word is very popular among asians.

 

[Cheetah]

Hehe. Well, we know how to use it!

"Über" is a good example of a German word that is used as slang in Norway as well.

 

[Xanikk999]

Hehe. Well, we know how to use it!

"Über" is a good example of a German word that is used as slang in Norway as well.

In RPGs and among geeks, powerful items or equipment, or characters are considered uber.

Its another word for godly.

 

[Gogf]

We learn a lot of it in French class, so yes.

 

[Ansar]

While taking Language, I learned that in French, they use Parking, le weekend, and software, but it's better to use the French words (stationnement, fin du semaine, logiciel).

 

[Guangxi]

Guru is used in english; comes from sanskrit. ["elder, teacher"]

 

[GenMarshall]

If the Japanese use slang from English, it would and will be written in Katakana (Since English slang is a loanword) .

 

[adherence.]

I thought an Anglicism was a word in English borrowed from another language? The verb Anglicize means "to turn into English," so Anglicism should mean something that has been turned into English. An English word borrowed into French would be a... a... umm... I don't know.

I don't think that any other languages would borrow English slang and use it as slang. However, many languages have borrowed regular English words and used those as slang in the language.

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
An·gli·cism /ˈæŋ

gləˌsɪz

əm/ [ang-gluh-siz-uh

m]
–noun (sometimes lowercase

)
1. a Briticism.
2. the state of being English; characteristic English quality.
3. a word, idiom, or characteristic feature of the English language occurring in or borrowed by another language.
4. any custom, manner, idea, etc., characteristic of the English people.

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

Japanese uses an endless barrage of English slang, though often the pronunciation and the nuance is quite different.

Everyone below the age of 30 says "bye bye".

 

[Ansar]

Japanese uses an endless barrage of English slang, though often the pronunciation and the nuance is quite different.

Everyone below the age of 30 says "bye bye".

Do people over 30 say Sayonara?

 

[Yeeek]

Not sure about slangs but words yes. Such as Parkings, Weekend, cool, ok ect...

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[Enkidu Warrior]

Do people over 30 say Sayonara?

No, not unless they won't be seeing each other for a very long time. It's really dependent on the situation, I can't give you a short answer (and I'm too lazy to give you a long one )

 

[Mirc]

Well, we use (or at least some of us, I personally don't use most of those):

Cool
Weekend
Computer (though more often our version, Calculator - which is not the same as in English)
Blue jeans (actually a shorter version, something like Bluejee)
Everything related to computers (Software, CPU, CD, DVD, Scanner, Mouse, Hard Disk, RAM, etc.)

And some people (mainly teenagers or 40-50 year olds trying to look young):
Sorry
Please