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Originally Posted by jayswin
I worked with some Chilean guys back in the day. They would always say things like "borrow me your car please". There was no lend and borrow, just borrow.
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Actually, now that I think about it, there's no borrow vs. lend in Chinese either, it's just borrow / lend.
But if you think about it, it's English that's the weird one with two different words for it. There's only one word for "give", why are there two for lend vs. borrow?