If we cleaned out all the borrowed words, less than half of modern Chinese will be left, "he said." Borrowing words from other languages is a global phenomenon.

中国社科院语言所研究员顾曰国认为，如果清除所有舶来词汇，那么现代汉语将只剩一半。

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Maybe it happened by chance, maybe one language was heavily influenced by borrowed words from the other.

也许这是偶然发生的，也许是一种语言深受另一种语言的借用词影响。

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It was strings of words borrowed from the different languages around them and put together in sort of haphazard ways.

它只不过是从身边的不同语言当中，借用了一些单词串，以随意的方式将它们放在一起。

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It was strings of words borrowed from the different languages around them and put together in sort of haphazard ways.

它只不过是从身边的不同语言当中,借用了一些单词串,以随意的方式将它们放在一起

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