too much sugar not good for the health

[Walter Bright]

torhu wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Ary Manzana wrote:
>>> English is not succesful because of the language itself, but because 
>>> of other reasons (power, articles, books). Just like Java is 
>>> succesful but nowhere near because of the language (I guess VM, nice 
>>> documentation system, IDEs).
>>
>> One reason English is successful is its shamelessness in adopting 
>> useful words and phrases from other languages. Sort of like what D 
>> does <g>.
> 
> This isn't quite true.  English is 'successful' because of the 
> dominating position of the US, and earlier the UK.  People very rarely 
> choose between languages based on how 'good' they are.  On the other 
> hand, two thirds of the English vocabulary is supposed to originate from 
> Latin.

I did say one reason - there are many. Some languages look inward, not 
wanting to accept foreign words. English, as you say, is mostly foreign 
words. Like the blob, English tends to absorb whatever it comes in 
contact with <g>.