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[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

It's not that language on a whole gets less and less expressive. Some things are more expressive, like youth language often is. Borrowing words from other languages makes a language more expressive. And even in this case: you can still say "because". I don't see any harm done, except in shaming people because their dialect is wRonG and less sophisticated and therefore they are less than.

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