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Why you should #degoogle!
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Un-de- the English languange from Latin influence. Ungoogle yourself!
Why though?
Why do you keep using French words then?
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English is comes from the proto-Germanic family of languages. It was later when the Normans invaded the British Isles did the language begin to see Latin & French influences (which is one of the sources for English having terrible spelling rules). “de-” is of Latin etymology. “un-” is Germanic in origin. In many cases “un-” prefixes can be substituted. See: ungoogled-chromium.
Idk, sounds pretty latin bro...
The complete disregard for "purity" is what made English flexible enough to become the defacto default common language of most of the world. Your pursuit of language purity is in fact very un-English.
It is it de-English?
England colonizing every piece of land they could get their grubby hands on made English the defacto default common language of most of the world
so wait why the preference for de