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by tech-historian 1002 days ago
This phenomenon generally cracks me up, where you see random (to me) english phrases sprinkled throughout foreign languages. SNL leaned into this, in a skit with Pedro Pascal speaking spanish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkmlfHi9Ll4

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The counterpart to this is of course https://youtu.be/nWMp_z7Jnxw
Brilliant! I hadn't seen that one, thank you!
My Russian girlfriend did not even know that кринж (cringe) was an English word. Not only that, it has been imported as an adjective just like its use in English internet slang (e.g. that's cringe). Then a verb was formed from that: кринжевать.