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Originally Posted by MMM
All foreign words are made to fit Japanese pronunciation. And you are right, they might as well be Japanese, as they are adopted into the language.
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Man, MMM, where were you when a couple people were trying to convince me in the Japanese board that a loanword is not part of the language that borrows it?
Like, there were people telling me that "arachnophobia" isn't an English word because it comes from Greek, and "sushi" isn't an English word because it comes from Japanese.
I was trying to tell them that if a word is used in a language regularly, it's a word in that language. This caveat about "regularly" is meant to exclude stuff like considering "omnia praesumuntur contra spoliatorem" as English because it's used very occasionally in some US court opinions.