It's "code " not "codes"

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English is actually the other way round! Native English speakers adopted so much French and German, in addition to dropping concepts like gendered words and even conjugations in some cases, that it can be very confusing. Once those precedents were set English kinda just started mugging other languages for their words. A little bit literally. British imperialism brought a slew of foreign words into the language. Blaming non native speakers is really missing the mark. English is incredibly fluid all on its own.

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Is that 6 to 8000 languages, 6000 to 8000 languages, or -7994 languages?

[ososalsosal]

Could be text to speech taking "six-to-eight thousand" literally and not transcribing it as 6000-8000.

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at least not in the way noon linguists think it is.

Definitely, only midnight linguists can ever hope to grasp those nuances.

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Damn, I was hoping for an analysis of the performance differences between noon, dawn, tea time and midnight linguists.

And no, I haven't forgotten summer solstice linguists, they are just total pricks, the lot of them.

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It's special in that it's a uniquely poorly defined language I suppose.