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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Can you say shibboleth (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by nifty to c/microblogmemes

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are culinary exports really "loan words"? Like the whole world calls a fajita a fajita (with various pronunciations), does that make it a loan word and part of the language or are we just using the original name for it? You see what I mean? I'm genuinely asking I have no idea.

I don't know for computer in Japanese but in french it's got it's own word (ordinateur), a good example of this would be "weekend" which is integral part of french vocabulary, that I would call a loan word, not sure about the food stuff though.

[–] aidan 2 points 8 months ago

Are culinary exports really "loan words"?

Why not?

does that make it a loan word and part of the language or are we just using the original name for it?

I mean, computer like I wrote, is just computer in Japanese. Similarly Tsunami and Honcho are japanese words, loan words, they still refer to their original meaning