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mghackerlady
58 days ago
english is (latin greek french anglic arabic) in a trench coat
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ahartmetz
58 days ago
The core is just proto-Germanic + Latin via French. A bunch of foreign words don't really count.
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eru
57 days ago
They also important some foreign grammar here and there.
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hk__2
58 days ago
Arabic?
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mghackerlady
58 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabi...
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hk__2
52 days ago
Thanks, but those are only ~150 random words; that’s not enough to be important.
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mghackerlady
49 days ago
considering the amount of use a lot of those get (especially in more technical fields), I say it counts
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