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[–] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

english is fucking bloated with latin. so if you want to know the english language, you have to learn latin.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We've also got a lot of Greek though, depending on which language was the fashionable one for science at the time.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

english is bloated with latin, which is in turn bloated with greek

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

I mean you could make an even stronger argument for French or whatever flavour of German. Obviously, you can speak it fine without any of them.