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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: michael97123 who wrote (39802)4/18/2004 5:07:49 PM
From: Ilaine   of 793917
 
It is not a better language that french or german.

English is a Germanic language with many, many borrowed words from Latin, French, Spanish, and other Romance languages. Germans don't borrow words nearly as much, they agglutinate, making up long words that are made up of many shorter words.

The French borrow but their intellectuals despise the use of borrowed words and try to ban them.

But, when you assimilate a new object, process or concept, why not assimilate the word it was called in the culture from which it was assimilated?

That's one of the great strengths of the English language, assimilation.

Having only neutral objects is another. We don't have to worry about whether an object is male or female, as in German and French, or one of the many other strange things in other languages. It is an "it" and that's that.
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