Behold the power of a mistranslation:

> The term ‘brutalism’ was coined by the British architects Alison and Peter Smithson, and popularised by the architectural historian Reyner Banham in 1954. It derives from ‘Béton brut’ (raw concrete) and was first associated in architecture with Le Corbusier, who designed the Cite Radieuse in Marseilles in the late-1940s.

But since the word can be used as an insult in English, it's used with no reference to its original meaning, obscuring the fact it's a botched translation.