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>British English: mobile phone
>American English: cell phone
>German: Handy

In what ways have people in your cunt tainted the eternal Anglo's """" language""""" and bent it to their will?
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pelefon
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Handy isn't even an English word though. The Germans made it up. Blame yourselves.
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>>59891783
Proofs :DDD
Seriously, is it one of those weird Americanized German idioms like "what gives" or "come with"
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>>59891783
Handy is a word. It means useful.
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>>59891783
>Handy isn't even an English word though. The Germans made it up.
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kännykkä
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>>59891221
>>>59891783
>Handy is a word. It means useful.
or it can refer to how the phone fits in your hand you dope
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I remember being shocked that only we use Handy
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>>59892561
>how the phone fits in your hand you dope
..eh
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>>59893450
it's more "handy" as in "handheld"
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Cep telefonu
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>>59891221
>Algeria:Portable
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>>59891783
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>>59891783
Your mum gave me a handy last night
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>>59894913
good post
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>>59891783
>English is american's native language
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Poland:komórka
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>>59894997
At least they didn't invent a language without thinking up a words for numbers past 69
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>>59891783
You better be an immigrant or else there is no excuse. Handy is an English word. More importantly hand is the same in both languages, which is where their abbreviation is from.
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>>59891221
that's handy to know, cheers!
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>>59892373
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>>59892525
>>59894798
>>59894913
>>59894997
>>59895509
>All of these morons
I speak German and am a native English speaker. I am more educated than a bunch of 15 year olds on int on this topic.

https://de.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Handy

The Germans are stupid enough the believe that Handy comes from English but we have no such word even close to Handy pertaining to the cell phone. Handy in the German sense is pseudo-english and is as English as the word "Ching Ching ding dong" is Chinese.

>Handy is an English adjective
No shit retard
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>>59897082
>guys please listen to my opinions
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>>59891221
mobilný telefón
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>>59897222
Not opinions. They are just not educated.
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>>59897082
handheld mobile device I guess

if anyone ever called it that
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>>59897082
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/handy
>Handy isn't even an English word though. The Germans made it up.
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>>59891221
you can use virtually any french word in english as long as you write it in italic.
Anglo think its has refined je ne sais quoi.
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>>59891221
We call it mobitel which is the name of the main telephone provider.
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>>59899767
Same here with pelephone(wonderphone)
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>>59902950
>not shut-it-down-machine

Jokes aside, it's interesting how we name things after brands. Like vileda (the yellow dish sponge), eurokrem/vikikrema/nutela (chocolate spread), and others.
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>>59897367
Your opinions? Correct, they indeed are
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Handy is colloquial for having a woman Jerk you off in america
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>>59891221
Germans always use English words for everything, and even if they don't, they make up their own English words, like Handy
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>>59899701
>He can't read German so he links English article
>English article proves my point that it is a German word
Wut
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