#Languages

What's a non-English word that has incorporated into regular English speech? No places or foods! I am especially curious to learn about words from non-Western languages that have been incorporated.
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Today is a big day. Two long-awaited genetic studies have been published now – the updated version of the widely-read ‘The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia’ is out
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At the risk of drawing ire.HTML and CSS are not programming.And neither does that have anything to do with elitism nor with gatekeeping, stop saying that and hear me out.
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Foreign unis send students a list of emotional phases in a WhatToExpect vis a vis culture shock, being away from home etc. I think it's comparable to what we're going
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Getting ready for the @FanTALES_EU Closing Event. I will be livetweeting the project presentation and the keynote by @NybroPetersen, from my office in Frankfurt. The special challenge of this Closing
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Teens on Tiktok are making fake conversation videos that people can play if they’re feeling unsafe in an Uber Another fake Uber call for safety Can I just say that
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What is the one song in your native language that you love?I wanna hear it :) Mine is this - Sempurna by Andra and The Backbone(slightly cheating because technically it's
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Now since a Snapchat of mine has been brought to Twitter and has sparked a conversation in regards to language learning and one’s mother tongue. I’m here to explain exactly
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As a child, I always wondered why Indian words like राम always got written as "Rama" in English. To me "Ram" seemed like a much better fit for the pronunciation.
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wtf......... do animal sounds sound different in different parts of the world? https://youtu.be/6b6eX9JhgaM  or maybe it’s just sound different bcos of the onomatopoeia attached to them varies in different languages?
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THE ACTS OF GENOCIDE OF @prosperity2022 The one PP policy that I had cautious support for was the language policy AS I UNDERSTOOD IT. I was happy to hear more
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LANGUAGES IN THE NORTHA THREADSometimes around the internet, I see people mostly the people in the southern and eastern part of Nigeria pushing the idea that the whole of north
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Since my feed is discussing this again, a short thread on why Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin are both the same and not the same language: 1. In the most
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pissed at how people judge me when i speak in english. if i try to speak in the dialect, they'd say that it's "different" from how they talk. most people
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Finnish academia has been discussing ‘the tyranny of the English language’ today, prompted by a provocative interview of a Prof of Fenno-Ugric languages. I’ve made the occasional snide remark on
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I know you'd love for us to celebrate your music instead of crying over this extraordinary loss. https://youtu.be/5RgMzRNsiiI  He was the personification of the quote 'greatness is also about
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