Re:Swedes turn against cashlessness
by interfixus on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:03AM
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Strangely, I have never heard it verbed that way in Danish. Alle I ever hear is the slightly laborious 'sender dig på MobilePay'.
But then again, I'm ancient.
The verbification of a foreign language word easily becomes awkward: "Mobilpayer du mig lige 50?". Yes, Denmark is so anglofile they chose an English word for a Danish payment service.
In Norway it's "I'll vipps you 50 crowns" or "jeg vippser deg 50 kroner". The verb is actually in the Norwegian dictionary now.
Re:Swedes turn against cashlessness
by Broken_Hippo on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:19AM
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Thanks. This adds to my Norwegian vocabulary :)
Not that this is very useful to me right now, but who knows, that bit might change.
In Dutch, you send someone a Tikkie, which is a payment request. We haven't verbed it as far as I can tell.
Re:Swedes turn against cashlessness
by alistairjudson on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @06:14PM
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It's common parlance around people I know to use "Monzo me a tenner". Monzo has taken off pretty incredibly in some areas, it's just a bank though.
My Danish isn't good enough to reliably say what it is when speaking Danish. Probably something like "Jeg mobilepayer dig halvtres¹ kroner"
The system in Britain (Paym) hasn't really caught on. They might be less keen to verb a noun.
¹ This is why I avoid discussing numbers in Danish.