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Um, yes. It has the words "shuriken" and "sushi". We didn't invent those words, but we found them useful, so we kept them.
Presumably, if the cultures that used lots of shuriken and ate lots of sushi had been English-speaking, they would still have invented words for them.
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Um, yes. It has the words "shuriken" and "sushi". We didn't invent those words, but we found them useful, so we kept them.
Presumably, if the cultures that used lots of shuriken and ate lots of sushi had been English-speaking, they would still have invented words for them.