The coming of English killed the Tamil expression of love :-/ It's like...three syllables versus fifteen, or something. I don't speak very good Tamil, so I'm rather lost. They use a lot of English words for stuff that isn't there in Tamil knowledge and culture, and so doesn't have a word. Hee, their pronunciation of 'love' is so cute.

Yeah, restaurant and cafe are French, to quote a few very common examples. Eee, I wish I was better at languages, too. I think I'm the only one of the family too lazy to learn them well :-/