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Originally Posted by LoveLakeLife
When did a tidal wave start becoming a tsunami? lol The Japanese have their own word, we have our term. I suspect they don’t borrow our words.
(Same with flabbergasted. The British can keep gobsmacked. Never the Twain shall cross.)
Now that’s off my chest … ha
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Japanese actually borrows a ton of words from English. They use three alphabets, one is basically reserved for phonetically spelling Western words.