Some times the English language is friggin’ perfect.
Tell me there is a better word for 🦈 than “shark”.
You can’t look me in the eyes and tell me one exists.
Sharks are perfectly signified in our mongrel English tongue.
It’s a magnificent word.
Sharky shark shark shark.
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“Tiburón” is close; it’s fun to say “aguas! Hay tiburones!”
But not quite as good as shark.
That is one of the best fucken words ever spoken.
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I also like the word “fish” for fish.
That’s a good word right there.
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English is so shit at other things that we needed to steal vocabulary from French, Greek and Latin just to have a respectable vocabulary.
But it pretty much owns for animal words.
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Dogs are more doggy than they are chien-esque or perro-ista.
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Also half these words are just norse loan words, so I don't see how that's improved the situation.
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Well of course. I did point out that English is a right bastard mongrel tongue
(Imagine I delivered that word “bastard” with enough Scottish brogue that it painted Queen Liz’ own face with a blue n white St Andrew’s Cross)
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English has many excellent qualities.
For me, one of the most obvious wants is (non-regional) curse words.
English curses are super tame, and can't be expressed with sufficient vitriol.
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