[SampleMan]

The great advantage of English is the way it has quite consciously and shamelessly imported words as needed. It has helped it become the de facto world language.

There are already ~1600 French words in English language, but new French words are rare. Why? Because the French have stopped innovating. If the French had developed the world's leading search engine, the computer, or hash tags, we would be using French words in relation to those.

[DanZ]

I find these to be interesting examples of English word change.

Gay, - In the 50’s it used to mean someone happy. Today it is means ????

Queer - In U.K. English, again back a few years ago, it meant odd, strange, not normal. Today what does this mean ???

There are other less “striking” - not offensive bastardizations of English. Is this good, is this bad ??? History marches on