The weak shall inherit

[muckefuck]

I was a bit taken aback just now to see Facebook auf deutsch telling me "Freundschaftsantrag versendet". Call me altmodisch, but that just sounds Denglishy to me. I would've used the strong(ish) participle versandt and reserved the regular ending for the meaning "broadcast" (e.g. "Die Serie wird seit erst seit kurzem gesendet"), which--whatever its actual origin--has always struck me as a calque on English. But I suppose the distinction is much blurred these days when that request was never more than bits and may well have been viewed on a mobile device.

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[anicca-anicca.livejournal.com]

Also, Freundschaftsantrag sounds terribly wooden to me. If anything, I'd have chosen Freundschafts*anfrage*. Einen Antrag stellt man an ein Amt. Oder man macht jemand einen (aber dann gleich richtig-> Heirats-)Antrag.
But as I said, people get used to the weirdest words because they're there, on the screen.