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You’re right overall, but I hate that quote. English doesn’t have a lot of duplicate words because of some aggressive vocabulary-stealing nature. It has a lot
by School-Cotton 2y ago
You’re right overall, but I hate that quote.
English doesn’t have a lot of duplicate words because of some aggressive vocabulary-stealing nature. It has a lot of duplicate words for the same reason modern Nahuatl has a lot of loanwords from Spanish: England was colonized and ruled for centuries by non-English-speaking people.