I’d argue this whole discussion is a flaw of the English language. Quoting Pratchett “English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languag

I’d argue this whole discussion is a flaw of the English language. Quoting Pratchett “English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.” English has a lot of words from different origins that are more or less synonyms and one of the most common time wasting behaviours i’ve seen is people endlessly trying to categorize those words in endless debate. The web is full of endless slideshows with titles such as ‘the difference between management and leadership’ or some such. One’s a latin word and the others german for basically the same concept and since english has both (it steals from every other language without care) you’ll find a million slideshows people have created on the differences between the words. This whole thread is yet another example of this behaviour and if you’re aware of it you’ll very quickly tire of every fucking ‘the difference between [english loanword from latin] and [english loanword from german]’ thread you’ll see.