Translations:Wiktionnaire:Actualités/018-septembre-2016/45/en

One of the concerns of living languages is to be receptive to modernity. This implies a capacity to create neologisms from loanwords. Among miscellaneous possible processes, the most elaborated consists in finding a word whose meaning and pronunciation looks like the loanword (phono-semantic match). Mandarin is a good example of this. Among others, there are: