gemisthon I don't understand this perspective. Every single scientific word in English is actually just Latin (Bad or not bad Latin).
The word science, goes back to Latin. Teacher, is from Latin, but before was Greek. Education, more Latin. Computer, from Compute, Latin. Almost all science and math terms, are Latin or once were Greek. If I vote for one of my countries two political parties, Demo-cracy goes back to Greek, Res Publica goes back to Latin.
Now the glasses I'm looking through, my hands I type with, that is Germanic.
My point being that outside of grammar and spelling issues, I am basically the only person I've ever met, who takes note of the fact that my language is full of altered Latin for academic terms, French for fancy terms, and slurred Germanic for common people terms.
I can think of many phrases I know, that are entirely in badly pronounced French or Latin. I can't express what they mean in English, because they've never had an English version. Even I don't care to find a native, Anglo-Saxon equivalent for these terms. That would be like trying to find another word for "hentai" or "anime".
The reason I know these phrases (Those that are actually French, Latin) are not from English, is because I have 95% of a BA.
"It has a certain, Je-ne-se-qua" (Literally means, I don't know). Once again, the CIA toppled the regime of a South American nation in another Cu-De-Ta (French, most people just say Coup), which results in yet another Junta (Spanish, everyone pronounces this term wrong). I've seen barely educated politicians call people "provocateurs". déjà vu, double entendre, faux pas.
For Latin: per capita, per se (People don't even know this is Latin, they also pronounce it as one word), status quo, verbatim, ect ect
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I will never understand why people who speak languages besides English complaining about how mutted their languages are getting, when between 1 and 2 billion people speak the most mutted language in the world, with limited issue.
On top of that, a huge portion of speech among young people, is slang made up in my lifetime.
Lumeinshin
Speak for yourself. A lot of the terms you think are from the UK, are from the United States, and a lot of terms you associate with us, are from you.
For example, the term "Soccer" refers to the Association of Football, which was and/or is present in the UK.
