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If you want primitive, try indonesian. To pluralize, you say the word twice, lol srsly.
English is really a product of Old English meeting Danish in it's early years, then absorbing Latin and Greek. Whereas most European languages are direct descendants (more or less) of Latin, (with the obvious exception of Slavic languages and Germanic tongues) English had a complex interplay with Very old Germanic/Nordic languages and some English tribal words (witness Sheep vs. Ewe - most languages use some derivation of 'ewe') and only absorbed latin much later in it's development.
I believe English is best at absorbing foreign words, not only as nouns but as verbs, which is key. Other languages have a hard time doing so (like spanish, which must ad -ar, -er or -ir to the end of any stem form of a verb) To lol, we lol, I lol and I'm lolling vs. lolar, lolamos, lolo, lolando.
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