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Thread #81624   Message #1498118
Posted By: manitas_at_work
02-Jun-05 - 08:41 AM
Thread Name: happy? - May 30
Subject: RE: happy? - May 30
Of course loan words are a natural occurrence in English! Try speaking English without any Hindi, Arabic,Turkish, Persian, German, Spanish, French etc etc words and see the huge gaps. Try to avoid any words derived from Old French, Old Norse, Latin or Greek and see how far you get.

The very strength of English is it's ability to absorb words from other languages.