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When societies of humans come into contact, they\u2019ll often pick up words from each other. When this is happening actively in the minds of multilingual people, it gets called codeswitching; when it happened long before anyone alive can remember, it\u2019s more likely to get called etymology. But either way, this whole spectrum is a kind of borrowing. \n\nIn this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about borrowing and loanwords. There are lots of different trajectories that words take when we move them around from language to language, including words that are associated with particular domains, like tea and books, words that shift meaning when they language hop, like \u201cgymnasium\u201d and \u201cbabyfoot\u201d, words that get translated piece by piece, like \u201cgratte-ciel\u201d (skyscraper) and \u201cfernseher\u201d (television), and words that end up duplicating the same meaning (or is it...?) in multiple languages, like \u201cnaan bread\u201d and \u201cPendle hill\u201d. We also talk about the tricky question of how closely to adapt or preserve a borrowed word, depending on your goals and the circumstances. \n\nAnnouncements:\nThe LingComm grants have been announced! Thank you so much to everyone who made this possible, and congratulations to all our grantees. Go check out their projects as they keep rolling out over the rest of this year for a little more fun linguistics content in your life. https://lingcomm.org/grants/\n\nIn this month\u2019s bonus episode, originally recorded live through the Lingthusiasm Discord, we get enthusiastic about your sweary questions! We talk about why it's so hard to translate swears in a way that feels satisfying, how swears and other taboo words participate in the Euphemism Cycle, a very ambitious idea for cataloging swear words in various languages, and more. www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm\n\nJoin us on Patreon to listen to this and 60+ other bonus episodes. You\u2019ll also get access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can play and discuss word games and puzzles with other language nerds! www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm\n\nFor links to things mentioned in this episode: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/684727483493384192/episode-68-tea-and-skyscrapers-when-words-get