• Dexx1s@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This is one of those things where formally, sure, there’s a difference, but I’ve never heard anyone use that first term. Everything’s a loanword. And these kinds of things are in many, if not all, languages, from my attempts at learning other languages.

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      5 months ago

      Well yes, but you could say that about basically every science, not just linguistics. I can think of at least three such cases in German and more specifically German law.