Wednesday lunch break
A work project on which I've spent a lot of time lately, including several evenings, has now been put on the back burner. I'd been expecting this downshift to occur by summer, though not quite yet. But so long as the project was up front, I was putting a lot of time into it, and enjoying doing so. Now I'll be able to ask for some new projects to
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- Although, important to say, enough words that are being "borrowed" are not used linguistically correctly, some terms don't even exist like that in English as they import them here (so there's the guess that they rather come from the drawing table of a marketing agency).
Particularly in the case of "coming out", I think, its tiedness to the topics of sexuality (and more recently also sex identity) results from the fact that the German language didn't have a specific word before to contain this circumstance what is meant with it.
And due to the term being obviously a loanword, it stayed with just this meaning.
(Overall, that's also not that bad because so you notice as a native speaker of German in your language that someone is going to say/reveal something important about them. It's like a marker that tells you "this here isn't about something trivial".)
...From that point of view, to my ears and understanding, admittedly, it sounds a bit odd if "to come out" is being used with a context which is not that groundbreaking.
Much more than if group X is supposedly "allowed" to use it.
Even if I know that, linguistically, it's quite simple English (it's not a customized or specialized term) and it can be reused for whatever purpose at will.
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