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minus-squareThunderclapSasquatchlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 hours agoLoan words are fun, your language either lacks a word for a concept or it’s very obscure so you just grab one from a neighboring culture. English has loads of them from French
minus-squaremathemachristian [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoAt this point english is to french as swiss is to german.
Loan words are fun, your language either lacks a word for a concept or it’s very obscure so you just grab one from a neighboring culture. English has loads of them from French
At this point english is to french as swiss is to german.