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The thing about the English language is that you can verb any noun you like and get away with it. Just like I did in the previous sentence.
Verbing weirds language, per calvin and hobbes
https://imgur.com/verbing-weirds-language-wHldxoy
Well, I just nouned your verb right back to the way it was, checkmate.
Pretty sure the majority of the English dictionary is just loanwords, too.
― James D. Nicoll
English readily absorbs both the best and worst of all the other languages. If some other language has a word that really hits the mood of even just a small amount of English speakers - bam! - it's English now, motherfucker!
Add to this, it's chock-full of complicated and often hidden rules that can - or absolutely cannot - be broken, depending on context. No wonder people learning it as a second language have that permanently confused look on their face.