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Re:Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. ... by daemin on Monday May 04, 2026 @12:31AM (#48004654)
This is the same sort of thing as is happening in other languages such as Polish. Many English loan-words are being used when there exist equivalent Polish words, even on the news broadcast on TV.
Re:Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. ... by pndy on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:41AM (#48005398)
I'm baffled that "cel podróży" was replaced with a bizarre "destynacja" from English 'destination'. And it seems it's also being used outside tourism context.

Not mention the infamous "hejter" but so far I don't think there's any good Polish equivalent and people are fine with that loanword - especially politicians.

Re:Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. ... by t-3 on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:18AM (#48004911)
It happens all the time in English too, not always super broadly though now that English is the lingua franca (and that is a foreign phrase that's aged poorly but has no proper translation!). It's very common to prefer romanized genre names (eg danmei, isekai, xianxia, wuxia) rather than the English equivalents/translations/reverse borrowings.