This video provides a sharp look at linguistic drift, showing how loanwords evolve and take on new lives across different cultures. It effectively dismantles popular etymological myths with concise, practical examples.
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Words used in French 🇫🇷 & Egyptian Arabic 🇪🇬 Part2Added:
sèche-cheveux sèche-cheveux canapé canapé pension pension un caleçon caleçon But what is caleçon in French? It's underwear for men. In Egypt, it's the winter underwear, the long one, like long johns. Yeah, like men that you can wear sleep also, which is like shorter.
>> We also say sleep sleep. maillot But maillot means a swimming suit, right? Uh so, maillot de bain is swimming suit, and maillot can also be uh the t-shirt for sports. jupe jupe We even say the j. pantalon pantalon chemise chemise chemise chemise Do you know that there is actually a theory that the word koshary came from French?
Really? Yeah. It's a weird but I guess I see why people say this because you hear the word riz, which is rice, and there is rice in koshary. But actually, it's not true. It's just Yeah.
>> [laughter] >> Koshary is ours.
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