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In response to "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" by Italian."

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.

Posted by Reagen Oct 24 '22, 09:26

Like, sushi comes from Japanese. But it's ridiculous to say that sushi isn't an English word now. At what point did it stop being one and become the other? Impossible to say.

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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

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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.

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