Comment by stackghost
14 hours ago
English's superpower is readily absorbing new words from other languages.
Sushi is now an English word. So is hummus, etc.
14 hours ago
English's superpower is readily absorbing new words from other languages.
Sushi is now an English word. So is hummus, etc.
If that's a superpower, it's a staggeringly common superpower.
> 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.