A rather belated comment in HN timescales, but whatever. I'm a English-native Russian learner, and most of my exposure to the phenomenon of English as the ling

A rather belated comment in HN timescales, but whatever. I'm a English-native Russian learner, and most of my exposure to the phenomenon of English as the lingua franca of computer stuff was in college, where it was bizarre to hear the Chinese students discussing their (programming languages) project in Mandarin while dropping in "parser!", "tokenizer!", "scanner!" every fifth word. Learning Russian I was taught that half the vocabulary was random words Pushkin borrowed from French. I then actually went to Russia and was bemused at the prevalence of odd English loanwords ("ксерокс" will forever be a favorite) despite knowing the linguistic processes that introduce them, and being doubly bemused at the adoption of English grammatical conventions (how can you name a homegrown chicken chain "Ростик’с"? HOW!?"). It hasn't stopped, and is now at the point where it's prevalent enough to be a tongue-in-cheek joke in pop music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4h-WpSsXVw&t=1m57s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4h-WpSsXVw&t=1m57s). It's kind of amusing learning a language to then watch it transform by bits and pieces into some mishmash between your native language and whatever it was before, which was itself a mush of old languages cobbled together into something people actually speak nowadays, or thenadays, I suppose.