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Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has acknowledged Trump’s letter is real. 🤣 (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] DonLongSchlong@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Up arrow on the handy"

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

[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

😂 Shift key.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week 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.