• samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    Of course they are. The fact that they originated in other languages is irrelevant, since the vast majority of English words have as well.

    • MourningDove@lemmy.zip
      119·
      2 days ago

      ROFL… so, that they originated in other counties is of no matter! They’re English now!!

      Never change lemmy.

      • TomasEkeli@programming.dev
        13·
        2 days ago

        That’s why he said “the shower-drain of languages”. It’s how English got so rich, by accepting words from wherever into it. It’s like a petri-dish that everyone spits into: wonderfully varied and complex, but not very sanitary.

        Edit: dunno why I wrote shower curtain

        • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          I remember reading something about when Asterix (a French comic that loves puns) was translated into English, they had to find equivalent puns since most don’t translate. “Fortunately, English is arguably the lexicon for puns.” Being a hodgepodge of other languages is a big part of that.

      • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        111·
        2 days ago

        Quite literally, yes. They are also French, German, etc. words in other languages. A word’s origin does not determine what language it is, the language using it does.

      • TwistedTurtle@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        2 days ago

        That’s literally how languages work. They don’t spring whole cloth from an originator country, they evolve from older languages and are often influenced by other cultures.