I was listening to a presentation made by an Urdu speaker, and realized just how many wars are directly pronounced in English. Even some rather simple concepts like nineteen-eighties are pronounced in English, don’t they have a native way to name decades?
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They probably do, as do the French, but it may be the case that English is an improved shortcut. L'Academe has tried to eradicate incorrect French for decades and yet franglais remains. I'll bet it has to do with either word count or character count...by which one could make a vigorous case against using German.
