Sushi

 Blog #6 Sushi

What is the Japanese word for sushi? What is word and language?

Saying Sushi to an English speaking person would put the image of sushi in their mind but it is a borrowed word from Japanese because it served a purpose. Grouping Japanese and English together although both of them are different and when pictured you see their written in two completely different manners. A word being apart of a language has to serve a purpose when a language doesn't have a word for something typically a word is borrowed from a Language that does and how long a word is used in a language affects how it is viewed and often seen as a native word.

Word Soup:

   Viewing words like carrots, parsley, and meat in soup, it is our favorite soup, good soup, but people begin to change the soup by adding other things but over time you get used to it and like it. It still our soup but it is different. Words are from all over the place some are new and some are old , some are japanese and some are native. That is how sushi became the word for sushi and how so many words come to be in other languages. Learning an origin for a word is important as it gives you an understanding on how words evolve.

 Dictionaries are a place of description of how words are used but it does not define what is a word or what isn't; that is based on the people who allow a word to settle in and used vastly overtime. A word can be introduced through how people use it to describe something and it evolves in the ways that is shortened or change the pronunciation, maybe apply grammatical endings and eventually become a noun such as the word Racoon did; The word Racoon was adopted into English from Native Powhantan term ARAHKUNEM meaning 'That animal that scratches with its hands' and it is has been named as such ever since as it has been absorbed into our language once the spelling was standardized as there was other recorded spellings such as 'Rackoone' or ; Rockoon'.

   Silly Silly Linguist. "What is a word and what is a language? Is sushi an English word?" Youtube, uploaded by Silly Linguist, 13th of May 2021 of Publication, https://youtu.be/NDfttkmSL9M.