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you have it now, but your name was never on the deed.
means taking something that belongs to someone else with an understood, if often vague, obligation to give it back.
from from old english borgian, tied to borg meaning pledge or security — to borrow was literally to leave collateral, a promise wrapped around an object.
legal weightborrowing implies duty; theft implies none, intent differs entirely
linguistic ironyloanwords are never actually returned to their language
psychologypeople return borrowed books far less than borrowed money
time debtborrowed time is the only loan with no fixed due date
for instance
library books — average us public library lends 2.5 books per person yearly, unreturned rate climbing
loanwords — english borrowed roughly 80 percent of its vocabulary from other languages