Comment by shermantanktop 2 days ago
If a European language gained a new everyday word in the last fifty years, there’s a solid chance that it’s a loan word from English. A little odd to learn a “foreign” language filled with that stuff.
On the other hand, English is a Germanic language and got influenced by French. A nice recent article talked about why English doesn't use accents (because... of French) [1].
Just to say it's not uncommon at all to have languages influence each other.
[1]: https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/why-english-doesnt-use...
As a Swede, I can recognize the norse root of most English word for things that existed 1000 years ago.
> European
It's not restricted to European languages. 贝果 is bagel, just sounded out phonetically, and 三明治 is sandwich.
Idk if there's anything super odd about it.
Of course, English is the worst offender of loan words. As someone else said somewhere, "[English doesn't] just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
Gung ho, monsoon, filibuster, herbivore, vacation, etc etc etc. Thousands upon thousands of loanwords.