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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by karaterobot on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:11AM (#27222172)
There's a really fascinating guide for English writing which is all about this: how the best writers in English have used the cultural connotations of Germanic and Latinate words for effect. When to using one or the other, but also playing them off each other, or using the tension between them, and so on.

Ahh, here's the book: Classical English Style, by Ward Farnsworth [1].

1: https://www.librarything.com/work/24739629

Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by javierga on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:55AM (#27222816)
As a non-native English speaker, Farnsworth as a last name sounds very fancy.
Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by cogman10 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:14PM (#27223064)
Funnily, I think of it as more of a hillbilly name :D. Maybe because I think of Philo Farnsworth who was raised in rural western America.
Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by werber on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:49PM (#27223620)
I just think of Futurama