alt Hacker NewsEnglish's superpower is readily absorbing new words from other languages.
Sushi is now an English word. So is hummus, etc.
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_0ffh • today at 11:11 AM
If that's a superpower, it's a staggeringly common superpower.
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.