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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
chruop So if people started speaking Latin again, would the words from Latin no longer be Italian words? They would just stop being Italian simply because some idiots revived a distinct language?
You'd be hard-pressed to find a word in English that isn't from another language. Only neologisms seem to fit under your definition.
But obviously I'm not going to convince you. I just hope that I can convince other readers on the board.
I think a very simple test is "is the word in the dictionary"-test. If the word is in a Japanese dictionary, it's a Japanese word. If it's in the OED, it's an English word. Etc.
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well your doing a bad job of convincing the "others" on here. Or at least me. I can see where your coming from....but it still is wrong in my opinion. Not like it matters what I say, your never going to see it any other way, which is fine.