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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I mean English is sorta the science lingua franca so I imagine most of the technical words would be lone words if they showed up in a paper first.

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

*loan words, as they were loaned to the language in question.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

I interpreted it as meaning lone words as in only a few here and there.