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Re:How good is your French accent? by brian_cloutier on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:23PM (#11456759)
Turkish also did, the word was originally brought into Turkish as "Kompüter". But that didn't sound nearly turkish enough, so it was replaced with Bilgisayar, or "knowledge counter".

Turkey has an official government body which regulates the Turkish language and naturalizes foreign loan words. It used to be much more active but people generally still listen to it, why copy the sounds of a foreign word when you can copy the meaning and end up with a word that's much easier to say and remember?

They recently tried to rebrand selfie as özçekim, "self-picture", but I think it's a little too late for that one.

Re:How good is your French accent? by melvinmt on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:12PM (#11457077)
And, don't forget "Yüz Kitap".
Re:How good is your French accent? by reirob on Friday April 08, 2016 @06:06PM (#11458459)
What does Yüz Kitap mean?
Re:How good is your French accent? by muricula on Friday April 08, 2016 @06:56PM (#11458769)
Face Book.
Re:How good is your French accent? by frandroid on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:34PM (#11457257)
Oh no :)