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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 May 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Benjanun Sriduangkaew

      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 …

      Arthur Chu added,

      Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun_s
      People who want to argue with me about this don't seem to realize English is taught in most parts of the world (thanks imperialism). https://twitter.com/benjanun_s/status/1265202864508399617 …
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 May 2020

      Chinese "spelling" (hanzi) is objectively many times more difficult than writing English and people manage

      3 replies 0 retweets 24 likes
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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 May 2020

      It is all one big circlejerk in the end, this whole "Our beautiful chaotic mess of a language" stuff And it's like whatever, this is just what's typical for any "world language" that's the lingua franca of a large empire

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 May 2020

      The cliched quote about English "mugging other languages for vocabulary in an alleyway" is really boring, like you don't have to post it as a comment every time someone mentions some unusual feature of the English language, it's extremely played out

      3 replies 2 retweets 14 likes
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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 May 2020

      I really want to point out every time someone says this that this is entirely a matter of perception *All human beings* adopt words they hear from other languages when it's convenient

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 May 2020

      The reason you perceive English as actually "incorporating words into the language" but not vice versa is unconscious imperialism This assumption that because America is the center of the world, if a word gets commonly used by Americans it's "our word now" but not in reverse

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 May 2020

      Like look just as an example literally everyone in Taiwan knows the word "okay", there is nowhere you can't say "okay" and not be understood as agreeing to something, but if I said "Well that means okay is a Chinese word now" you'd balk

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 May 2020

      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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    9. skaffen-amtiskaw‏ @_amtiskaw 26 May 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      mind, nicoll wrote this in a specific context (as a counterargument to the idea of “the purity of english language”).

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 May 2020
      Replying to @_amtiskaw

      Right, like most overused quotes it's the overuse that made it annoying

      2:32 AM - 26 May 2020
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