Chinese Loanwords in English or other European Languages

Joachim
 May 28, 2010, 11:16 AM posted in General Discussion

It's interesting to the words in English with a Chinese background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Chinese_origin?

I didn't know about e.g.brainwashing ... ;-)

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Joachim
 May 28, 2010, 11:22 AM

ERR: It's interesting to SEE the words ...

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bababardwan
 May 28, 2010, 12:29 PM

Exellent post mate;love it. You immediately caught my attention with the brainwashing example which I was only recently commenting:

http://chinesepod.com/lessons/love-tangle-6#comment-175210

that I thought it had to have originated in one language and travelled to the other as it seemed too much of a coincidence. Thanks for the great link. :)