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I like to link the development of a language to the traits of its people.

Greeks have 7 words for love, and I like to think it’s because they love thinking, and wisdom, and therefore they need extra words for all types of feelings they articulate.

I wonder what made the anglo-saxons have one word for love. It’s a germanic word with indo-european roots signifying deep and intense feelings and affection for another. This makes me think the ancient saxons would not have used it very lightly.
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

english even only has one form of the word "you" which is ambigous as singular and plural

i'm not a fan of english, except for its lack of cases

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Low Information Voter 1y ago

"Why build our own vocabulary when there is an entire world to plunder?"

- Anglo-Saxons, probably

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

for whatever reason, the damp soggy islands were conquered repeatedly... first the celts, then the romans, then the vikings, then the germans, then the french

so i think it's more like the conquerers made them learn new languages over and over again anad english is like a form of pigin, and then after they kicked out the french they went off out into the world and did the same thing to everyone else except south america and northern africa