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wegwerfbar
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wegwerfbar
6y ago
Hi, thanks for your reply. Your remarks about its genetic lineage and development in a single area are spot on and relevant. > Only since the 1850s has the Japanese borrowing of loanwords really took off, and those are mostly limited to
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wegwerfbar
6y ago
> I feel that you are making a mistake that many native language speakers make in saying that their language has a complex nonlinear history compared to other languages which they happen to not know much about. But it also seems to actua