Every American Is Bilingual
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Every American Is Bilingual
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#2anthropology (of man), or morphogenesis (how shapes form.)
Not to nitpick but those are Greek, not Latin
But it made me discover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Latin
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#3> Latinate is the language of expertise. One might even say the language of the elite.
Shoutout to those who survived Ovid through the Aeneid in HS Latin I-IV.
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#4“Latinate” vs “Saxon” is a word-origin story, not two languages. etymology doesn’t equal meaning. His pairs aren’t true synonyms anyway: “terminate a contract” vs “end a movie,” “encounter errors” vs “meet a friend,” “manufacture cars” vs “make dinner.” That’s normal register, not a second tongue. And lots of everyday English doesn’t fit cleanly in either bucket, so the two-bucket premise falls apart.
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#5We all only speak two languages: English and bad English
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#6We all only speak two languages: English and bad English
This is elitist. Language is descriptive not prescriptive
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#7still count as one (language)
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#8American is in the title, but really, it's saying every English-speaker is at least bilingual.
If you're already n-lingual with English as one of them, you can bump it to n+1 :)
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#9There is this joke in Europe...
What do you call a person that speaks 2 languages? A bilingual.
What do you call a person that speaks 3 languages? A trilingual.
What do you call a person that speaks 1 language? An American.
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#10Not an American, but a Spaniard and I noticed that because we have many common Latin words between English and Spanish, some people from Spain prefer to use the Latinate versions of the words when speaking in English, even if they do not feel the same. But it's easier for us to remember.