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Anon watches The Last Samurai (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The words samurai is considered the plural form

That's... not how Japanese works

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

English (like any other language) likes to take loan words and apply its conventions to them, regardless of what the original language does. "Samurai" is singular and plural in English.

"The Last Samurai" is vague in who it's referring to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I said Japanese though, not English. "samurai" is both singular and plural in both languages

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What are you arguing about? The statement I quoted said that "samurai" is plural. Nothing that you said has contradicted that. In fact, you're only agreeing with it with this last statement. Doesn't matter that it didn't mention if it can be used as singular as it's not relevant.