AMERICAN WORDS USED IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

In America, we use a lot of foreign words and phrases: bon apetit, sayanora, faux pas, cafe, gesundheit…etc. Non-English speakers of the website Reddit were asked, “What English words do you use in everyday conversation?” Some of the responses:
– Norwegians use ‘Texas’ as an adjective in describing parties, as in, ‘That party was Texas!’ In this context it means both ‘huge and epic’
– “In Poland we often use ‘sory’ (pronounced a bit differently than sorry) instead of ‘przepraszam’, guess why?”
– “‘Sorry,’ ‘ok,’ and ‘cool’ are the most common ones in Czech. Even my grandma uses those.”
– “There’s no real word for yes or no in Irish. Some use “ta” or “sea” but those translate closer to “it is.” So you will hear native Irish speakers chatting in Irish but saying “ya” or “yes” every few seconds because it’s a useful word and how the hell did we not have a word for it for so long?”
– “In German, we say ‘sorry, hello, good morning, bye, what’s sup?, and cheers just to name a few.”
– “Visiting a girlfriend in Spain, her friends loved saying ‘Kill It’ when finishing a drink. To them it was the funniest way to take shots.”
– “The French say: ‘le selfie,’ ‘le feedback,’ ‘le brunch.'”
– “In France, we use the word ‘weekend’. We literally don’t have a French word for it. So we just use the English one.”
– “In Korea there are a few English words used but they rarely have the same exact meaning. For example, ‘panty’ is used to mean underwear but it is a gender neutral term.”
– In Argentina a one night stand is a “touch and go.”
– “Iran here. We use a lot of American curse words.”
* I bet you do.
* Best of all is when you have a “Texas touch and go”.
* On behalf of America, let me just say, “You’re welcome, world.”
* Another ten years and you won’t need a foreign phrase book to travel in Europe.