On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 21:38:31 +0000, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at
port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote to Freelance
Traveller:

>On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 21:00, Jeff Zeitlin - editor at freelancetraveller.com
>(via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 08:51:01 +0000, Timothy Collinson wrote:
>>
>>
>> >Why not English? I asked with a smile...
>>
>> I (and many others that I've known) have said for many years that for any
>> two countries X and Y that are in the Anglosphere, they're two countries
>> divided by a common language...
>>
>> I took advantage of that, to some extent, in presenting ideas on how to use
>> English to make your character seem foreign, in "Speaking in Tongues"
>> https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/dialect.html (July/Aug
>> 2017)...
>>
>>
>Oh yes, good link - thanks for resurfacing that.  (Although, as I've just
>written on Facebook, I'm sure that verb is for dealing with roads that need
>repair.)

Yes, but not entirely; consider its potential use in the context of a
submarine that finds it necessary to return to the interface between ocean
and atmosphere...

Again, that's sorta characteristic of English - it doesn't necessarily keep
the original meaning of a word if there's another perfectly good definition
lying around that fits...

   “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 D. Nicoll

I'd go so far as to say that English doesn't limit its attentions to other
languages; it even will prey on its closest relatives and immediate family.

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