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Comment by keiferski

I can think of three reasons:

1. English doesn’t really have an official regulation body, like French does.

2. The lack of cases and complex grammar. Any language with a case system is going to have more complexity when it comes to adding new words, because otherwise you end up with awkward looking constructions.

3. English itself is something of a hybrid between Latin and Germanic languages, which to my knowledge gives it a more diverse ancestry than the typical language. Ergo having a new word of dubious origins is more natural.

parent keiferski 1 year ago

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