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French colleague: "ciao is said by French-speaking people so much that I legit thought it was a French word until I was an adult and discovered it was -- nm

Posted by Italian." (aka Max) Oct 24 '22, 09:17

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"Chau (ciao in pidgin Spanish)" is common among Spanish speakers here as well. I grew up with it. There's also the en-cute-ified "chaucito." - con_carne Oct 24, 10:15
French and Italian are first cousins anyhow -- nm - rollo Oct 24, 09:41
Also it's a fine line when something is an borrowed word still in another language and when it becomes just part of the language that borrowed it. - Reagen Oct 24, 09:26 2
- I feel like they can still be classified in two different groups. - Max Oct 24, 10:01 1
  - I look at it differently. French is prescriptive and English is descriptive. - TWuG Oct 24, 10:10
It's been adopted in a bunch of non English speaking European countries. It's like OK. -- nm - Reagen Oct 24, 09:24

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