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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, Polish has a decent amount of loan words for example, but they tend to be used for different things and polish also uses calques and native phrases for things, for example a car is a samochód, literally "self-walker", and species names are written in Polish, not Latin