Not sure why you’re being downvoted here. This absolutely is the go-to quote for monolingual English-speaking laypeople who think that English is “exceptional” in some way - whether that be “bad” or “good” - when in reality English is a pretty unremarkable language overall.
It does have a few mildly interesting idiosyncrasies, but “polysemy” and “having loanwords” (even “having a large percentage of loanwords”) are not really among them.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted here. This absolutely is the go-to quote for monolingual English-speaking laypeople who think that English is “exceptional” in some way - whether that be “bad” or “good” - when in reality English is a pretty unremarkable language overall.
It does have a few mildly interesting idiosyncrasies, but “polysemy” and “having loanwords” (even “having a large percentage of loanwords”) are not really among them.