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Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile by bovine3dom on Thursday October 25, 2018 @08:36AM (#18300383)
You'd have a hard time doing the same in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabi...

Some quite common words are on that list: jumper, cat, fanfare...

Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile by kkarakk on Thursday October 25, 2018 @09:31AM (#18300741)
this is not a fair comparison. arabic words when spoken, are always assumed to have religious connotations first whereas english is always assumed to have contextual connotations first. it is a huge distinction
Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile by posterboy on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:18AM (#18301539)
Fanfare is surely related to latin fanum, temple, whence fanatic, but good to know there's an arabic connection. Edit: Some nationalist tendencies would even try to find a turkic root, for everything, and there might be some reason to it with the prominent location of anatolia, but historical location and language is hard to trace, of turks and of whoever else stayed there.