• mienshao@lemmy.world
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      6 天前

      Nope—that’s how all language work. Like go study Japanese and see how many words they “stole” from English 🤣

      And linguistic purism is generally associated with nationalism. See the GOP’s recent English-only policies as an example. No bueno.

      Languages mixing and ‘stealing’ from each other is a good thing. One human race. ✌️

      • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        6 天前

        You’re not wrong at all. My favourite Japanese word is “gu-rey-pu-fu-root-su” for grapefruit. Like, bro, copy off me but don’t make it look like you’re copying. 😂