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Originally Posted by trunker

yomise can either be singular or plural in japanese but in english you have to make the difference obvious.

Japanese words in the English language don't always have the plural-singular distinction (similar to Japanese for this case).

Some English speakers will say "otakus" or "otaku"... to say there is a group of people who identify themselves in this particular subculture.

Strangely a Japanese word, ninja, always have the plural-singular distinction. I don't know why.

But the most complicated things in the English language is that some pluralized words don't end in "-s", mainly attributed from the old classical Germanic langauge heritage.