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8 Jun 2010
Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]
I live in Belgrade, and my friends are more and more using english words in everyday communication. I honestly don't understand this phenomenon when we have in our language words that are almost completely equivalent.
Unfortunately, we all are witnesses of language colonisation, general anglization? Visible in culture (music, movies, fortunately literature is still not giving up) noticeable everywhere, especially in those countries that don't have a critical standpoint towards the powerful ones.
It's not just a simple evolutionary process, it is a consequence of subordinated positions other non english nations have.That explains why for example, turkish language is not present in german, as much as english, although one million turks live there. Their social -economical status is not allowing them to fertilize german with more turcisms (not counting few words for fast food). Similar situation is visible in french that's not influenced by arabic, english untouched by ex colonies languages, etc.
I see this only in terms of domination-subordination.
Also, that is I guess, the explanation why i do not speak a single word chinese evn though 20.000 are living within a few km distance. English I can see on every corner.
So, with apologies for the length of this post, I will finish with this question:
Why native english speakers don't use polish, german, russian or swedish words ?
I live in Belgrade, and my friends are more and more using english words in everyday communication. I honestly don't understand this phenomenon when we have in our language words that are almost completely equivalent.
Unfortunately, we all are witnesses of language colonisation, general anglization? Visible in culture (music, movies, fortunately literature is still not giving up) noticeable everywhere, especially in those countries that don't have a critical standpoint towards the powerful ones.
It's not just a simple evolutionary process, it is a consequence of subordinated positions other non english nations have.That explains why for example, turkish language is not present in german, as much as english, although one million turks live there. Their social -economical status is not allowing them to fertilize german with more turcisms (not counting few words for fast food). Similar situation is visible in french that's not influenced by arabic, english untouched by ex colonies languages, etc.
I see this only in terms of domination-subordination.
Also, that is I guess, the explanation why i do not speak a single word chinese evn though 20.000 are living within a few km distance. English I can see on every corner.
So, with apologies for the length of this post, I will finish with this question:
Why native english speakers don't use polish, german, russian or swedish words ?