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Then yeah, you’re wrong on your basic premise that Latin is the basis of most Western / European languages. Many of them other than the Romance languages have minimal Latin influence other than loan words.
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
—James Nicoll
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