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Fake foreign words can sometimes take a life of their own, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-French_words_in_English https://en.wikipedia.or

by nynox 5y ago

Fake foreign words can sometimes take a life of their own, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-French_words_in_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-French_words_in... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-German_words_in_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-German_words_in... My favorite coffee name so far is definitely Urino Decaffeinato

gpderetta 5y ago
that doesn't sound very tasty, but to each their own I guess.
tonyedgecombe 5y ago
>Urino Decaffeinato I think I was drinking that this morning.
kergonath 5y ago
The first link is terrible. “Voir dire” is not pseudo-French, it’s an archaic expression from old Norman French (a lot of such phrases ended up in English legal language). Also, “nom de plume” is used commonly in French.