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Example sentences for: loanword
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Paul Blackford's article [Some English Loanwords in Thai, XXI, 1,5] brought to my mind my favourite chunk of Thai vocabulary and, incidentally, another loanword from English (from Thai for Travellers , DK Arts, Bangkok):
' The pronunciation “for-tay” is an illiteracy, scarcely attributable (as given here and in various dictionaries) to a confusion with the musical direction so pronounced because that is a loanword from Italian: those who know about musical directions are not likely to blunder that badly.
Probably an elided mix up of sexy, sex bomb, and sex symbol (/sek/sy/m/ bon/) because l is not a final consonant in Thai and if encountered in a loanword becomes n (or in this case m as bomb is also a loanword).
The dropping of goulash communism (1968 citation; economic approach in thencommunist Hungary emphasizing greater production of consumer goods) and gramadan (1970 citation; Hindi loanword applied to a Gandhian form of land collectivization in India), both in the 1963 book but not in TBDNE , reflects the fact that, in a living language, citations require different analysis and judgment after the perspective of time is added.
For instance, the British use the word machismo (but pronounce it, almost invariably, as if it were a loanword from Italian, with a - k -where the Spanish has a - tch -).