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mrwnmonm
on July 1, 2022
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The popularity of country music in rural sub Sahar...
I am an Arab, that's why I always notice it. صحراء means desert, any desert, not a specific one.
jamal-kumar
on July 1, 2022
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Yeah I think English does tend to do that a lot to foreign loan words, that's pretty interesting though, I guess you learn something new every day. The Anglosphere probably isn't the most polyglot out of all the spheres of languages.
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