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My native language (and I imagine many others) didn't have any localized version of Word until the late 90s and I (and I imagine many others, even people who di
by bananaflag 3y ago
My native language (and I imagine many others) didn't have any localized version of Word until the late 90s and I (and I imagine many others, even people who didn't speak English at all) got used to using English words like "Save", "Italic", "bullets" etc.
- WalterBright 3y agoEnglish incorporates words from other languages all the time. Large numbers of American Indian words, for example. When the US occupied Germany, a number of German words. And so on. Heck, half of English nouns are taken from French, from when the French conquered England.
- bananaflag 3y agoYeah, I have nothing against borrowing words. I was just refuting the (unspoken) assumption that everything got localized since the beginning of time.