 pseudo-anglicisms are words in languages other than english which were borrowed from english but are used in a way native english speakers would not readily recognize or understand. pseudo-anglicisms often take the form of compound words, combining elements of multiple english words to create a new word that appears to be english but is unrecognisable to a native speaker of english. it is also common for a genuine english word to be used to mean something completely different from its original meaning. pseudo-anglicisms are related to false friends or false cognates. many speakers of a language which employs pseudo-anglicisms believe that the relevant words are genuine anglicisms and can be used in english, which may cause misunderstandings. when many english words are incorporated into many languages, language enthusiasts and purists often look down on this phenomenon, terming it (depending on the importing language) denglisch, franglais or similar neologisms. ==pseudo-anglicisms in various languages== ===multiple languages=== * aircon (filipino, german, japanese ã¨ã¢ã³ã³) â air conditioner (but valid in australian english) * air-condition (german, greek, serbo-croatian, swedish) â air conditioning * apart (japanese ã¢ãã¼ã, korean ìíí¸) â apartment * autostop (or in some languages stop) ( bulgarian, french, greek, hungarian, italian,Â«autostopÂ» , vocabolario treccani on line, istituto dell'enciclopedia italiana polish, romanian, russian, serbo-croatian, spanish, turkish) â hitchhiking * basket (arabic, danish, french, indonesian, italian,Â«basketÂ» , vocabolario treccani on line, istituto dell'enciclopedia italiana greek, persian, serbo-croatian (one-hoop variant), spanish, swedish, turkish) â basketball * baskets (french, romanian) â sneakers * beamer (dutch, german, romanian) â video projector, primarily digital * beauty farm (dutch, german, italianÂ«beauty farmÂ» , vocabolario treccani on line, istituto dell'enciclopedia italiana) â spa * black music (french, german) â urban music (but used by english speakers in a less than politically correct sense) * body (hungarian, turkish) â bodybuilding * body (for dancing) (german, finnish, french, italian,Â«bodyÂ» , vocabolario treccani on line, istituto dell'enciclopedia italiana romanian) â leotard * body (for infants) (german, french, italian, polish, spanish, turkish "badi") â infant bodysuit * body (estonian, serbo-cro
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