• hakase@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Unless you’re talking about Scots, the closest languages to English are separated by at minimum more than a thousand years, which is plenty of time for those constraints to change significantly.

    I’d even expect different dialects of English to behave differently when adapting loanwords, because they already show plenty of phonotactic differentiation.