• You can’t include English in any rational discussion about languages. It breaks every rule, and isn’t one language, but a pidgin of three or four. It’s a bastard of a language, and what-about-ism involving English is so trivial it’s not worth debating. You can always find a worse example of any language linguistic stupidity in English.

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        Spanish in other places, too—piña colada, anyone?

        The takeaway here is, the rest of the world uses different words than the continents where it comes from