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Pokémon.
Animé and manga, and I guess hentai and some other pron words from Japan.
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are there modern foreign language words that have entered common English parlance?
Depends what you mean by "modern", "foreign", "English" and "common" 🙂
The one which comes to mind as being unambiguously modern, foreign, common, in the field of technology and used in all Englishes is robot
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are there modern foreign language words that have entered common English parlance?
I cheated with google and got this list of 20 https://cudoo.com/blog/something-borrowed-english-words-with-foreign-origins/ The only tech one is avatar
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Emoji. The west adopted the idea and the name from Japan completely unchanged.
snottyotter
gbj_tester
nick_h.
grams
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In the way that foreign languages, such as French, have adopted modern invented English language words such as l’Internet, are there modern foreign language words that have entered common English parlance? Obviously there are many historical examples such as je ne sais quois but are there any modern technological examples? Not only looking for French language