Trends of foreign-origin words in your mother tongue

[PDH]

English borrows from other languages so often that it's often not not known that a new word is borrowed or from where.

English roughs up other languages to see if they have any spare words.

No.  English just waltzes in, puts its muddy feet up on the furniture, and says "I like that, that, that, and that.  I'll take them.  Oh by the way, I am staying."

[Legbiter]

English borrows from other languages so often that it's often not not known that a new word is borrowed or from where.

English roughs up other languages to see if they have any spare words.

No.  English just waltzes in, puts its muddy feet up on the furniture, and says "I like that, that, that, and that.  I'll take them.  Oh by the way, I am staying."

[Viking]

English borrows from other languages so often that it's often not not known that a new word is borrowed or from where.

English roughs up other languages to see if they have any spare words.

[mongers]

English borrows from other languages so often that it's often not not known that a new word is borrowed or from where.

English roughs up other languages to see if they have any spare words.

No.  English just waltzes in, puts its muddy feet up on the furniture, and says "I like that, that, that, and that.  I'll take them.  Oh by the way, I am staying."

[Iormlund]

Much of Castillian comes of course from Latin.
Though the occupying Visigoths largely adopted local culture, there might be also some Germanic influence, at least when it comes to names (Rodríguez = son of Roderick).
There are many Arab words, introduced during the 800 years of the Muslim rule. You can identify a lot of those because they start with the 'al' ('the') prefix (aljibe, alcazar, algodón, alforja, almacén).
There's also Basque influence, since it was widely spoken in the places and time where Castillian was developed (Burgos, Alava, La Rioja).
There are some American words, mostly for produce that came from the continent during the conquest and then spread out to other languages (tomate, chocolate).
There are probably some French, Italian and German words somewhere but I'm too lazy to check it out.
And of course there's the usual late influx of English words.
Most disturbing though, the Royal Academy has lately embraced Latinamerican dialects, an act which everyone should obviously disregard as foolish and crazy.

[Tonitrus]

Tech word borrowing I can understand.  The technology originated in the English-speaking country after all.  Words like "boyfriend", on the other hand, have already existed in the Russian language, so in those cases it just looks like an inferior culture borrowing from a superior culture.

True. I heard words like "to kiss" have also been borrowed in Russian (e.g. "kissovat") which sounds very weird.

Could it be that Russia is so illiberal/obscurantist that young people develop their own slang, to be able to talk freely? Sorta like polari in anti-gay Britain.

I've never seen the verb for "to kiss" neglected like that, but "boyfriend" is quite a bit.  Though, DG, is there an actual word for boyfriend?  I usually would just see what is the literal translation of "my guy", or "my man". 

[garbon]

Most disturbing though, the Royal Academy has lately embraced Latinamerican dialects, an act which everyone should obviously disregard as foolish and crazy.

More disturbing is having an insitition regulating language.

[DGuller]

I've never seen the verb for "to kiss" neglected like that, but "boyfriend" is quite a bit.  Though, DG, is there an actual word for boyfriend?  I usually would just see what is the literal translation of "my guy", or "my man".

  Good point.  I can't think of any now that I think about it.

[Tonitrus]

I think it's the same for girlfriends.  I remember causing confusion problems with my teachers when trying to refer to a platonic female friend as "подруга", as that seems to have the connotation of "girlfriend" (if you're a guy, anyway).  And still am not 100% sure whether to use that word, or just simply "друг" (which usually seems refers to a male). 

[The Larch]

Most disturbing though, the Royal Academy has lately embraced Latinamerican dialects, an act which everyone should obviously disregard as foolish and crazy.

More disturbing is having an insitition regulating language.

It's not as if we really listen to it too much, anyway.

[garbon]

Most disturbing though, the Royal Academy has lately embraced Latinamerican dialects, an act which everyone should obviously disregard as foolish and crazy.

More disturbing is having an insitition regulating language.

It's not as if we really listen to it too much, anyway.

And yet it exists.

[The Larch]

Most disturbing though, the Royal Academy has lately embraced Latinamerican dialects, an act which everyone should obviously disregard as foolish and crazy.

More disturbing is having an insitition regulating language.

It's not as if we really listen to it too much, anyway.

And yet it exists.

It's a place for crotchety old academics to try hard to keep up to date with the XXth century. It has little to no effect on the language spoken in real life.

[Sheilbh]

I love the Academie Francaise. Any organisation run by unanimously elected Immortals is admirable

And they recently got a British member:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/22/academie-francaise-elect-first-british-member

[garbon]

Most disturbing though, the Royal Academy has lately embraced Latinamerican dialects, an act which everyone should obviously disregard as foolish and crazy.

More disturbing is having an insitition regulating language.

It's not as if we really listen to it too much, anyway.

And yet it exists.

It's a place for crotchety old academics to try hard to keep up to date with the XXth century. It has little to no effect on the language spoken in real life.

Is Iorm crotchety?

[The Larch]

Most disturbing though, the Royal Academy has lately embraced Latinamerican dialects, an act which everyone should obviously disregard as foolish and crazy.

More disturbing is having an insitition regulating language.

It's not as if we really listen to it too much, anyway.

And yet it exists.

It's a place for crotchety old academics to try hard to keep up to date with the XXth century. It has little to no effect on the language spoken in real life.

Is Iorm crotchety?

It's the academics the ones that are crotchety, not the people who listen to them.