PugJesus@piefed.socialM to TankieJerk@piefed.socialEnglish · 25 days agoLeast racist tankiemedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down10
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minus-squarexep@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up16·24 days agoSo English is stolen from French? Loanwords are exactly that. As Pugjesus has mentioned, Japanese isn’t even from the same language family as Chinese.
minus-squaremsage@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·24 days agoAnd also yes, like nobody argues that english is some miracle new language, every linguist knows it’s a mashup of other languages.
minus-squaremsage@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·24 days ago60% is a significant portion.
So English is stolen from French? Loanwords are exactly that. As Pugjesus has mentioned, Japanese isn’t even from the same language family as Chinese.
And also yes, like nobody argues that english is some miracle new language, every linguist knows it’s a mashup of other languages.
60% is a significant portion.