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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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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English is pretty flexible and it’s current global status means it will oucknup vocabulary in a way other languages don’t and spread vocabulary too, but I’m not sure it’s so unique for that.
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Yeah those are features that just come with the territory of being a lingua franca If you look at the evolution of koine Greek from Attic Greek it picks up, in the broad sense, "English-like" features of simplified grammar to make adopting loanwords easier etc.
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mind, nicoll wrote this in a specific context (as a counterargument to the idea of “the purity of english language”).
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Right, like most overused quotes it's the overuse that made it annoying
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