
Conlangery #59: Loan Words
Conlangery Podcast
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The Importance of Technology in the Modern World
In a highly connected world, there are more opportunities for these borrowings that will require some sort of word borrowing. English has an enormous Japanese vocabulary being re-important because of things like manga and anime. The semantic range of borrowed words may change pretty substantially. Another good example is in the English spoken in India, the word gents, short for gentlemen, is sex neutral.
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