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by mghackerlady 58 days ago
english is (latin greek french anglic arabic) in a trench coat
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The core is just proto-Germanic + Latin via French. A bunch of foreign words don't really count.
They also important some foreign grammar here and there.
Arabic?
Thanks, but those are only ~150 random words; that’s not enough to be important.
considering the amount of use a lot of those get (especially in more technical fields), I say it counts