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Buddy English has no "shared root" with Japanese but we still say sushi. What does it mean when someone creates a new account for posting contradictory comment
by Razengan 10mo ago
Buddy English has no "shared root" with Japanese but we still say sushi.
What does it mean when someone creates a new account for posting contradictory comments?
- stackghost 10mo agoEnglish's superpower is readily absorbing new words from other languages. Sushi is now an English word. So is hummus, etc.
- _0ffh 10mo agoIf that's a superpower, it's a staggeringly common superpower.
- kergonath 10mo ago> Sushi is now an English word. Eyeballing the Wikipedia page, and out of the only scripts I could read, I counted 72 languages that used a direct transcription of "sushi". It isn’t as much a superpower as a thing languages do in general.