Dépaysement
Thank God for words like dépaysement. There's nothing more [uncoined cognate adjective] to a language than words which don't really belong. We refer to these words as 'loanwords', which is a bit doltish. On loan until when? It seems to me that no loanwords have ever been returned to their owner. Despite their half-baked name, loanwords are extremely use…
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