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Originally Posted by sweetbat

I think german language has stolen a lots of english words
most of them are the ew words. For example:
english:mobile phone german: mobile telephon but everybody says ,,handy"
when i meet english speaking people i am often using the word handy instead of mobile phone, and they can't understand.

So what exactly is stolen from English in this case?

I love the way Germans say English "a"s. Especially in the following examples:

Campingplatz
Flat-screen
Badmington.