You're trying to say that colonisers, living in the colony, corrupting and simplifying the local language because it's too hard for them to bother learning, is

You're trying to say that colonisers, living in the colony, corrupting and simplifying the local language because it's too hard for them to bother learning, is somehow not colonial. > To say using language to describe new things is colonial is frankly ridiculous. They took a wide range of food, with very different characteristics, representing huge geographical and cultural spread, and reduced all of that to an anglicised word "curry".