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> and english as spoken in Europe, for which many words are not known to native english speakers.

Have some examples of these english words that native english speakers wouldn't know?

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You can find some at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pseudo-anglicism.

Even more of them can be found in business language, which did not become loan words.

Corporate speak: 'leverage' when 'use' is perfectly functional, and less of a mouthful.

Only occasionally is it used in a sense when a magnifying effect is implied.

Same thing for 'performant' instead of 'fast'.

What a fascinating rabbit hole.

Interestingly this also exists in the reverse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-French_words_ad...

I once had someone ask me what the "preterite" of a certain verb was. I was able to guess what she meant, but I definitely did not know that word from my experience speaking English.

This is kind of a borderline case, since the term "preterite" is recognized by English grammarians as a synonym of "simple past tense", but to use it probably is an influence by e.g. German Präteritum or French prétérit (which seems to be used in teaching English even though the syntactically corresponding French verb form is called the "simple past").

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