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The beauty of the English language is that we freely use words and concepts from EVERYONE. Unlike French and Spanish speakers (and a lot of others as well) we have no language purity movement. If a concept is difficult to translate to English we just incorporate the words.



After interpreting it, I sense that there was something semiotic in intent within that statement.

Now how's that for a Greek borrowing a Greek word from our British friend Siggy who resides in the USA.

Bedouin. Blessed are those eyes that have seen more roads than any man! (Homer).