Comment on Noses run, feet smell
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoBingo.
English is the drunken bully of languages, stealing words and claiming them as its own.
Comment on Noses run, feet smell
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoBingo.
English is the drunken bully of languages, stealing words and claiming them as its own.
mienshao@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nope—that’s how all language work. Like go study Japanese and see how many words they “stole” from English 🤣
And linguistic purism is generally associated with nationalism. See the GOP’s recent English-only policies as an example. No bueno.
Languages mixing and ‘stealing’ from each other is a good thing. One human race. ✌️
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You’re not wrong at all. My favourite Japanese word is “gu-rey-pu-fu-root-su” for grapefruit. Like, bro, copy off me but don’t make it look like you’re copying. 😂