Comment by sbierwagen
3 years ago
Of those, the only one I found surprising was yubikey.
My favorite type of loanword is ones that native speakers don't know is a loanword. Fun fact: the "honcho" from "head honcho" is from 班長, "hancho", squad leader.
I live in Japan, I convinced my Japanese bosses to buy a bunch of yubikeys, I make yubitsume all the time... and even then we didn't realize the connection
Uh, you amputate parts of your little finger [1] all the time? That sounds ... rather horrible and I really do hope there's some usage shift that I'm missing.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yubitsume
I accidentally a word...
I wanted to say that I joke about yubitsume xD
Maybe the Yubikeys didn’t work out so well?