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#23
Originally Posted by CrashandDie View Post
With regards to fora, it's wrong. It is a spurious argument to claim that a loan word should follow the rules of the language it comes from. How many people know the Inuit pluralisation rules for 'anorak', or the Nahautl rules for 'avocado'. If we borrow a Japanese word, can't we make it plural because Japanes has no plural? Where should we draw the line? Japanese does not accept an inanimate noun as a subject; should we follow this rule, too?
The argument is actually that 'fora' HAS been accepted into English (and not just in the singular form), not that Latin language rules apply. Think bacterium/bacteria.
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