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Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

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Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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    it’s tendency to aggressively ransack other languages for vocabulary

    I feel like this hasn’t happened as much as people think in the last century or so, it’s much more the other way around, almost every language now adds a lot of english vocabulary.

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      You have a whole smörgåsbord of recent word thefts

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        the word first appeared in English in the later part of the 19th century. By the mid-20th century smorgasbord was being used outside of food-related contexts to refer to something that comprises a mixture or assemblage of different parts.

        Source

        You got anything more recent?

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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Swedish_origin

          Moped

          Arguably ombudsman also counts

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