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The French tried to do this with the French language but failed. The most obvious success story is the Japanese language's katakana syllabury that allows English words to be written and/or abbreviated in japanese. For the Japanese, 99.9% of post-war technical words are written in Japanese katakana but then the Japanese have always had a history of successfully adopting and adapting.


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