language change through dubbing

[blobert]

I apologize for back-to-back, linguistic posts. But while the last one was boring, this one's interesting.

On the Laguage Log, Bill Poser discuss an interesting way English movies are affecting language change in Turkish. Now you might expect the usual borrowing, which is when language A adopts a word from language B directly into language A. An

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[anonymous]

Ironically, both "merhaba" and "selam" sound like words borrowed from arabic... Gil