An interesting perspective

Whereas the French Government actually have to pass laws to protect their language from invasion by “foreign words”.

It doesn’t do them any good, The populace still uses words like “Le Splashdown” for an Apollo capsule landing and “Le Weekend” for, erm,, the weekend.

@ElwoodBlues Not in mine either! But I still find this hilarious. And I love the expression "wildly stodgy!"

A professor, or a lecturer? There is a big difference!

He had a point in that the language is something of a mongrel, with Latin, Greek, Celtic, Gaelic, Germanic, Scandinavian and French elements; plus imported names from around the world for things previously unknown in the British Isles, or invented elsewhere.

That is Standard English, too, before considering the multitude of dialect words and constructions around the British Isles.

At least our standard spellings do largely still reflect and respect words' etymology.

Coulda had some fun conversations with that guy. 😂

He was correct in that the English language is constantly adding new words, and evolving...so I suppose that makes it the "shower drain" of languages.🤣🤣🤣

That's great quote!! Being able to absorb useful words (like robot & avatar) from other languages is not a crime in my book.

Must've had tenure and cooking sherry problem.