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Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by afroboy on Monday May 28, 2018 @06:51AM (#17171740)
> but languages are generally pretty resistant to borrowing grammatic features wholesale versus, say, borrowing vocabulary.

Not always check Spanish for example they took a lot from Arabic, like 'EL'.

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Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by _ak on Monday May 28, 2018 @07:57AM (#17171949)
LOL, what? Spanish "el" is etymologically derived from Latin ille/illa/illud, which became el/la/lo in Spanish.
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Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by bloak on Monday May 28, 2018 @11:56AM (#17173085)
Do you mean the sound combination "el", or the fact of having a definite article?

Latin did not have articles. The use of articles is a grammatical feature that has been borrowed between languages. But yes: that kind of borrowing is a lot less frequent than borrowing of vocabulary.

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Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by IncRnd on Monday May 28, 2018 @10:00AM (#17172417)
Why do you believe Spanish took "el" from Arabic?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/el#Spanish

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