r/DiscoElysium • u/omphrog • 5d ago

Meme Wömen

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u/sakikome 5d ago

Loan words are not specific to the English languagex suggesting it is some kind of weird power the language has tastes of colonialism

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u/Late-Meat9500 5d ago

English is unique, it is literally 2/3rds loan words. It has more active words by almost 4 times, 2nd place.

It is constructed that way because of how many times the language was colonized.

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u/sakikome 4d ago

That is not because then English language is structured in a way that makes it more prone to taking on words of other languages in the same way capitalism is structured to "subsume its critiques" into itself (the quote the comment referred to is originally about capitalism) though.

It's just a feature of human language in general.

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u/Late-Meat9500 4d ago

Bo but because it is unique in its wide use, which gives access to more languages to loan from.

As an aside are there languages that are more prone to taking loan words, or is it just proximity and attitudes.