Hi! I just had a random linguistic question. I was thinking of terms like “alma mater” and graduation designations like “cum laude” etc. and even in academic writing we commonly have phrases like “ad hominem” or “ad nauseum”. Why have these terms persisted in English societies, and where did integration of them with academia come from?
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Every word we have in English comes from other languages, the only real difference with the words/phrases you’ve picked is that they continue in their original form and haven’t mutated somehow
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