Examples of loanwords in the English language include café (from French café, which means "coffee"), bazaar (from Persian bāzār, which means "market"), and kindergarten (from German Kindergarten, which literally means "children's garden"). Most popular loanwords are the result of cultural contact. Many of them describe food, the arts, and entertainment. You probably know Sushi ... ...
Here is a loanword frequently used in my occupation.
Poka-yoke
Poka-Yoke, known as mistake-proofing, is a technique for avoiding simple human errors at work. Poka-Yoke is the use of any automatic device or method that either makes it impossible for an error to occur or makes the error immediately obvious once it has occurred.When the first time I heard of this term I thought it was some sort slungs within the engineering culture. Soon I found out that it is widely used in the formal documents.
Poka-yoke (ポカヨケ, [po-kah yo-kay]) is a Japanese term that means "mistake-proofing" or "inadvertent error prevention". A poka-yoke is any mechanism in a process that helps an equipment operator avoid (yokeru) mistakes (poka) and defects by preventing, correcting, or drawing attention to human errors as they occur. The concept was formalized, and the term adopted, by Shigeo Shingo as part of the Toyota Production System.
Poka-yoke also has it's Wiki page.
