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A lot of other languages borrowed words too. Some even more than English.

Polish is half Latin, 10% German, Italian, French and Russian, and now it becomes a lot like English too.

But it has consistent rules and after a word is used enough it becomes polonized: computer becomes komputer, and we don't ever have to wonder how to pronounce "c".




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