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|    Michael R N Dolbear to John F. Eldredge    |
|    Re: We are obsolete    |
|    08 Aug 14 21:57:52    |
      From: me@privacy.net              "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" wrote       On 8/7/14 7:52 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote:              >> Turn about fair play. English has loan-words from virtually every       >> language on the planet, including German.                     >> "Loan". That's funny. As if we're ever giving them back.              "Copy" perhaps              Any examples of recopied words which end up in the original language with a       additional foreign-derived meaning ?              Best I can do is "Metro"                            --       Mike D              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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