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Funny Learning Japanese

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u/Beneficial_Layer_458 8h ago

come on man

u/2gaywitches 6h ago edited 6h ago

It's komputer in both Russian and Indonesian, lol.

I also translated "ice cream" into Indonesian the other day and imagine my surprise when I found out it's "es krim".

u/Digit00l 4h ago

Indonesian has a lot of Dutch loan words with localised spelling, especially for things that aren't really local terms originally, which funnily enough includes tea and coffee

u/mnyrtt 6h ago

in russian its more like komp'yuter

u/SpunkyMcButtlove07 1h ago

German is "Rechner" (calculator, and the english calculator is "Taschenrechner" - pocket calculator), but noone will bat an eye if you use "Computer" instead.