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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by doc_gunthrop on Saturday July 28, 2018 @12:14AM (#17631490)
Surely it helps that English borrows heavily from the Romance languages, among others.
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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by nyolfen on Saturday July 28, 2018 @01:26AM (#17631693)
some people are so earnest to cast aside or denigrate their culture in a display of cosmopolitan/xenophilic signaling.
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Re:Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is takin... by gaius on Saturday July 28, 2018 @04:02AM (#17632160)
some people are so earnest to cast aside or denigrate their culture in a display of cosmopolitan/xenophilic signaling

I literally cannot even conceive of a French or Arabic or Chinese or any other language community in the world feeling guilt that maybe their language is too popular and spoken by too many people.

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