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A linguistics professor walks into a bar and asks for a martini.
“Don’t you mean a martinus?” asks the bartender, who has heard this joke before.
“No,” says the linguist. “When a word is borrowed into another language it takes on the inflectional patterns of the target language, rather than the source language.”
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