Why does a language feel the need to borrow foreign words? Why do we need репродуктор (speaker), штангенциркуль (calipers), and вальс (waltz) when we have our own rich vocabulary? In this new episode of Orthocontrol — a cultural portrait of loanwords: from фижмы (hoop skirts) to рельсы (rails), from the French бистро (bistro) to the Russian Обломов (Oblomov) in Dutch.
We will find out how foreign words become native and how our mother tongue grows even richer.