I get a tad annoyed by this because it's like people kind of want to talk about how bad English is -- how incredibly hard English spelling is etc. -- as another way to make it sound special And it's really not *that* specialhttps://twitter.com/benjanun_s/status/1265209402786590720 …
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Nobody says "Oh the Chinese language mugs other languages for vocabulary in an alleyway" like this charming thing It goes the other way, they say that this is evidence the Chinese language has been adulterated and weakened by English influence, it's less authentic now
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Anyway English has a lot of loanwords from different sources because it's the lingua franca of the American Empire It's not the first such language and it won't be the last It doesn't make English a good language or a bad language, it just is what it is
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It's not some ideally designed perfect language that can meet every human need and it's also not some "beautiful chaotic ugly mess", okay, like both of those takes are annoying You don't need to constantly make everything you do special
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