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Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?

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sxan@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

You can’t include English in any rational discussion about languages. It breaks every rule, and isn’t one language, but a pidgin of three or four. It’s a bastard of a language, and what-about-ism involving English is so trivial it’s not worth debating. You can always find a worse example of any language linguistic stupidity in English.

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Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Writer James D. Nicoll

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scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Is this a copypasta?

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- AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It is now
  
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  - sxan@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The James Nicoll quote is better - use that instead.
    
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