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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt 2022-02-08 05:16 am (UTC)

All languages have borrowings.

English does not particularly have more or less than other languages.

All languages have grammatical quirks.

English does not particularly have more or less than other languages.

As for spelling, which is not phonetics, that... okay, that's partially screwed up by our custom of borrowing words from foreign languages and then not spelling them according to usual English spelling rules, but that's a matter of orthography and not an argument for or against the creolization hypothesis.

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