Well also English speakers get used to using Latin/Greek vs Germanic roots for a high/low distinction and other languages don'thttps://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/844659254376173569 …
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Is this the result of the power of the beef industry? What caused this?
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Anyway it is interesting how strongly people react to this distinction, everything sounds more legitimate with classical roots
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Hence Poul Anderson famously making RL basic science sound like fantasy magic by using Anglo-Saxon roots in "Uncleftish Beholding"
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lamb. Eeek
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television in German is Fernsehen—"far seeing" literally the same as tele- vision-
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Think it's mostly to do with what animals Anglo-Norman (French speaking) nobility ate. And yeah, weird. :-)
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