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tumblr post by seokoilua: it’s so wild to me that some people just speak english all the time… like they can’t switch it off to speak in a #real language when they need to

  • rnercle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    17 days ago

    I grew up knowing the most popular language, why would I learn some backwater dump of a language like french only spoken by like 3.8% of humans unless I’m going to go live there or in one of the places they fucked over? Mandarin I could get, same with Spanish just due to total surface area and the best Venn diagram result. But there are so many little languages in the world and humans have finite time to live.

    because, if nothing else, it would make your English better

    Middle English borrowed vocabulary extensively from French dialects, which are the source of approximately 28 per cent of Modern English words, and from Latin, which is the source of an additional 28 per cent.

    when you learn more about a language that influenced “your language”, those borrowed words open up and gain more meaning. You master their intricacies and start using them with more tact

    • uncouple9831@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      17 days ago

      That makes some, but not a lot, of sense. You obviously don’t need to learn another language to learn more about your own, you can just learn your own more directly.

      Besides, the German part of English is way better anyway.