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		lxgr 77 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021) > I wonder if "beamer" is a "real" German word or one they borrowed from English in a weird way. It’s both :) See also: “Handy” for mobile phone.

richrichardsson 75 days ago [–]

I guess I meant if "beam" is an original German word, and then does "beamer" make sense grammatically in German.

Of course given the history of English it's not unlikely that "beam" came from German roots and they have the same meaning.

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