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Re:English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals by bonoboTP on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:08AM (#37222179)
But then no language is one language in that sense. For example Hungarian is a mix of Uralic, Turkic, Slavic, Germanic etc. vocabulary. This doesn't make English unique. The somewhat unique aspect is then reluctancy to respell loanwords according to their pronunciation.
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Re:English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals by dpig_ on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @12:26AM (#37231869)
Yes, precisely. A language isn't a thing as such. - Chomsky, probably.
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