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refalo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The words samurai is considered the plural form

That’s… not how Japanese works

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oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
English likes to take “loan words” and ignore the original language’s conventions.

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- refalo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I said Japanese though, not English. “samurai” is both singular and plural in both languages
  
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  - Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What are you arguing about? The statement I quoted said that “samurai” is plural. Nothing that you said has contradicted that. In fact, you’re only agreeing with it with this last statement. Doesn’t matter that it didn’t mention if it can be used as singular as it’s not relevant.
    
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/samurais

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- refalo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Japanese
  
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