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@ketsuban.github.io

I wonder if people believing English is a language that mugs other languages for their vocabulary is a result of how many Anglophones are monolingual? Japanese is full of Chinese words. Welsh is full of Latin words. The Romance languages are constantly passing words around like notes in a classroom.

8/9/25, 10:16 pm0 reposts0 likes

Thomas Winwood

@ketsuban.github.io

8 Sept 2025

The only difference is that because of the history of colonialism we make loanwords stand out by trying to preserve the original language's spelling, while in Welsh you can barely even tell that *ffrog* ("dress") and *llyfr* ("book") are loanwords but *gwyn* ("white") and *darllen* ("read") are not.