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At the end of the day, English is less a language in the sense of other languages and more a pluggable framework an empire developed for adopting the vocabulary
by cestith 4y ago
At the end of the day, English is less a language in the sense of other languages and more a pluggable framework an empire developed for adopting the vocabulary of other peoples and stuffing them into a loose sort of syntax together.
- Steltek 4y agoI often think of "Worse is better" when teaching my kids reading and writing. In fact, Internet memes in the past 2 decades have dialed this up to 11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better