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Aardwolf
on Nov 19, 2013
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English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet
In Dutch this one already exists: "vanwege".
Cthulhu_
on Nov 20, 2013
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Which is actually a merger of two words (van wege), which roughly translates to 'because of'. Lots of words are pronounced as if they are one (or always together), and in this case they were eventually written as one.
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