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<blockquote data-quote="poopgiggle" data-source="post: 2008904" data-attributes="member: 6406"><p>This. Like I said, when English doesn't have the word you need it's a pretty well-established tradition to just steal it from another language. We've been doing it for long enough that the chance that you can't find a word for your purpose is pretty low.</p><p></p><p>Funny story, we had a student from Greece who spoke English well but it was clearly her second language. However, she had no problem with less-common words like "anthropomorphize" because they're basically Greek loanwords.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="poopgiggle, post: 2008904, member: 6406"] This. Like I said, when English doesn't have the word you need it's a pretty well-established tradition to just steal it from another language. We've been doing it for long enough that the chance that you can't find a word for your purpose is pretty low. Funny story, we had a student from Greece who spoke English well but it was clearly her second language. However, she had no problem with less-common words like "anthropomorphize" because they're basically Greek loanwords. [/QUOTE]
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