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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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I don't see the problem (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)

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[–] Brett@feddit.org 67 points 4 months ago (5 children)

thats german anglicisms for you. before smartphones we called mobile phones handys

[–] LiveFreeDie8@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What is it called now? They are still teaching to call smartphones a Handy in german classes.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 31 points 4 months ago

That's correct. Do pronounce it Händy

[–] Brett@feddit.org 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It depends. Handy is still pretty common and everybody will know what you are talking about. But atleast in my circles we just call them smartphones most of the time now.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Schlautelefon

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago

Wischkästla

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 months ago

Me and all my friends all call them "Handys".

And to people not familar with English loanwords in German: Yes, the correct German pluralization ends with a "ys" and not as it would be correct in English: "ies". The same is true for "Hobbys" and "Babys", not sure if there are more.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Before? They still call them that

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

What are whistles? Blowys?

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 8 points 4 months ago

Hahahaha, omg that's awesome

[–] mongo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah handy is funny and is pretty common, but walkies is just what most brits will say for a dog walk and I have no idea where else it is used so would probably suggest it is a bit niche

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 32 points 4 months ago

It’s the pet play part not walkies