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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 comments?



English's superpower is readily absorbing new words from other languages.

Sushi is now an English word. So is hummus, etc.


> 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.


If that's a superpower, it's a staggeringly common superpower.




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