Frightening Borrow-Words

[debka_notion]

I just came across the Hebrew words for Anthropocentric and theocentric in my Hebrew homework. They look Awfully scary, even if they sound almost exactly like the English.

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[lordameth.livejournal.com]

Borrow-words are wonderful fun, aren't they?

My Japanese teacher includes ~five of them on every week's quiz, to make sure we're spelling them right... I think the scariest (and longest) ones I've ever seen are the placenames. How do you spell Yerushalayim in Japanese?

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

אנתרופוסנטרי and תאוסנטרי, right?

My favorite result of English loan-words is that the word for "bartender" (ברמן, as in the British term "barman") feminizes to ברמנית.