JFC you people will argue about EVERYTHING except the pout that’s being made! ROFL!!!
I never once said anything about what a speaker of a word knows.
THEY ARE NOT ENGLISH WORDS. THEY ARE WORDS UNDERSTOOD AND USED BY ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE.
For fuck sake you people need to stop reaching for what we you think makes you sound smarter than you are and start reading what someone is actually saying.
Go ahead and list some real “English words” then. Try to form any kind of coherent conversation. A language is defined by the people who speak it; it grows and adapts and doesn’t fit into your neat boxes.
If you’re getting pedantic about what words came from where, we’re just speaking Proto-Indo-European (and all but ~12 root languages don’t exist). But you’re not arguing that, you’re just saying nonsense.
So by your logic, all Japanese is English if it’s an English person speaking it.
Talk about a stupid hill….
By my logic an English speaker will know what omelette means, they’d be confused if you ordered it with un jus d’orange, s’il vous plaît.
Something like 25-30% of English is native Anglo-Saxon and the rest is borrowed or adapted. By your logic, English doesn’t exist.
JFC you people will argue about EVERYTHING except the pout that’s being made! ROFL!!!
I never once said anything about what a speaker of a word knows.
THEY ARE NOT ENGLISH WORDS. THEY ARE WORDS UNDERSTOOD AND USED BY ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE.
For fuck sake you people need to stop reaching for what we you think makes you sound smarter than you are and start reading what someone is actually saying.
And by your logic;
英語を話しています！
Is perfect English.
Go ahead and list some real “English words” then. Try to form any kind of coherent conversation. A language is defined by the people who speak it; it grows and adapts and doesn’t fit into your neat boxes.
If you’re getting pedantic about what words came from where, we’re just speaking Proto-Indo-European (and all but ~12 root languages don’t exist). But you’re not arguing that, you’re just saying nonsense.