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Eulalia!

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And me!

Like most worker cooperatives, it probably wouldn’t last a year.

Bleeding hearts always clot surprisingly fast when it comes to those they don’t like.

According to my mathematician wife, “it’s got the same problem most paradoxes do in that it’s self-referential”.

Apparently all Japanese is English if an English person is speaking it.

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We’re not talking about those words, I don’t play whataboutism.

Whatever you say bruh.

But fine, we won’t refer to any other loanwords. Instead, I’ll ask you to generalize whatever your position is: that is, can you provide a consistent definition of “English word” that will include what you consider to be English words and exclude “entrepreneur” and “schadenfreude” and any other words that you don’t think are English?

Apparently all Japanese is English if an English person is speaking it.

The linguistic explanation for what you’re getting hung up on here is pretty straightforward (though whether you accept it or not remains to be seen), but I’ll save it for later in the conversation to keep our discussion on topic in the meantime.

So answer my original question then. You know, the one that you dodged while calling me pretentious. Are the words I listed here English, or are they not?