It's interesting to compare this to Japan's relationship with foreign loanwords - an estimated 10% of modern Japanese comes from English [1]. The government occ

It's interesting to compare this to Japan's relationship with foreign loanwords - an estimated 10% of modern Japanese comes from English [1]. The government occasionally makes noises about reining the use of foreign-derived words in official documents, but there are so many things and concepts for which a borrowed word is the only word known to most speakers using "pure" Japanese would only be more confusing. 1. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-today/article/abs/errors-in-the-use-of-english-in-the-japanese-linguistic-landscape/872CC94A134D404ED3BF152086C9F9A1 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-today/articl...