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Originally Posted by kool maudit
I didn't mean shaggy mutt in a bad way! My digression seems to have triggered a sort of defensive swagger, but I love my mother tongue. It was a great language before the rise of the British Empire, and it will still be one after the fall of the US sequel. It doesn't remotely need its current hegemony to be fascinating.
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To paraphrase the immortal Forrest Gump -
"English is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get."
It borrows widely and copiously, has a loosey-goosey syntax and structure and is highly malleable, meaning the English language from the 1940s sounds noticeably different than the language today, and today's English will be considerably different in the year 2100.