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Conlangery #59: Loan Words

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The Different Types of Loan Words

In English, if it's a Latin word, we may borrow the plural or pretend that the plural is one of the e plurals if it's not. And then a lot of our loan words have zero plurals like, like the samurai is a zero plural usually things like that. But the ninja it can be ninjas. It's even a verb. He ninja the thing away. Yeah. That no ninjas a great word if we borrowed from Japanese and then run with it and it's been turned into a verbs. So I mean, this is how loan words work. What was I going to say about it? Yes. The Arabic language just borrowed the word for film film

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