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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
also due to English being considered a "universal" trade lanquage for a good part of the last century. It's also partly due to "loan" words, many phrases in English have no counterpoint in other lanquages.
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Ryzorian is right. In almost all modern cultures the drive to acquire words and phrases from other languages is international trade. Many Japanese products, and entire industries, are marketed to the west and the "universal" language for western nations is English. Even the French, who have fought long and hard to keep English words out of their language, have had to accept those terms that simply have no equivalent in their own. It is much simpler to accept an English word for something originally named in English, than to add yet another term simply for the sake of linguistic purity.