I would also like to add that as far as the colonialism/racism aspect of it goes, I don't think being educated enough to just say "chai" has any impact at all on anything and white people who clearly think it does annoy me *more* than other white people YMMVhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1331127083796336641 …
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Because English is an uninflected language based on word order Because it's a "world language" This fact is not really a demonstration that the Anglosphere is the most humble and self-effacing linguistic community in the world The opposite, that it's the most rapacious empire
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So I dunno, I have tremendously mixed feelings about the idea among hipster liberals that if they learn the language, if they learn the right words, if they pronounce everything properly that's some kind of absolution To me it almost feels like the opposite
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Who's more of a colonizer really, the white girl I knew from Pensacola who said "tortilla" with a hard L and blushed over her redneck past because of it, or some NY celebrity chef who says it perfectly and has made a fortune from "Mexican-inspired fusion cuisine"
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This is because English is three languages standing on each others' shoulders, wearing a trenchcoat. There's a hypothesis that English itself is a pidgin of Norman French and Old English; the language has been pulling in random words from random languages since it was a language.
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Both its glory and its horror honestly
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It's interesting seeing how Hebrew absorbs outside words into its grammar. For example, I often hear in my office "l'kampel" for "to compile." "I compiled" is "kimpalti", etc.
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Hebrew can take almost any foreign word, strip it down to its consonant skeleton, and contort it into a binyan
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