> I will admit that when I hear people using English terms and even phrases in my language, I fear that is another nail in killing the language. I could totally

> I will admit that when I hear people using English terms and even phrases in my language, I fear that is another nail in killing the language. I could totally see proposals to discard the language after a significant portion of ideas could no longer be expressed in the language. I remember two colleagues conversing in a foreign language in the office (Arabic I believe?) and telling them I almost understood what they were talking about since so much of it was English technical jargon. They explained to me there is simply no translation for these words in their language. I commend the French for making the effort of defining words for these new concepts. What I wonder is if some English terms will stick long enough to be known, in a few centuries perhaps, as "Americanisms". English itself borrowed heavily from French centuries ago (and some authors even tried to create a version of English free of Latin, Greek and French influences; it's worth a read [0]) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_English