I'll always argue that the more diverse our languages are and are allowed to be: the better. Some of the words my mum used were pretty descriptive, just like t

I'll always argue that the more diverse our languages are and are allowed to be: the better. Some of the words my mum used were pretty descriptive, just like the Burns (Scottish geezer) poem. My mum was a Devon girl, born in 1942 on a farm, near Dartmouth. She experienced things like German PoWs working on the land and then married a soldier, oh and she was a soldier herself - I still have her commissioning certificate on the wall. My parents were both Captains. Most of what she had to say was just the usual stuff with a few changes (and an accent that was gorgeous to listen to but nearly unintelligible if she wanted it to be) but sometimes she would trot out a word that painted a vivid picture that English didn't cater for properly without some help or a borrow word. You only have to go back one or two generations when things get sticky. "What's important is that we can talk to each other" - I totally agree but I'd like to see some richness in the discussion. "lol stuff" and "awks" etc are not very usefull.