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interfixus on April 4, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swedes turn against cashlessness

Strangely, I have never heard it verbed that way in Danish. Alle I ever hear is the slightly laborious 'sender dig på MobilePay'.

But then again, I'm ancient.

jfoldager on April 4, 2018 [–]

The verbification of a foreign language word easily becomes awkward: "Mobilpayer du mig lige 50?". Yes, Denmark is so anglofile they chose an English word for a Danish payment service.

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