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mytailorisrich on Sept 26, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Octopuses seen hunting together with fish

But according to Wikipedia, the French délicatesse is an Italian loanword (delicatezza)...

crooked-v on Sept 26, 2024 [–]

It's loan words all the way down. We just don't have enough info about prehistory to complete the chain all the way back to local variants of caveman speak.

carlmr on Sept 26, 2024 | [–]

Cavemen would really hate our quintuple pluralization.

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