I believe in a culturally pure America.

[Jonathan Bailey]

Which suggests, to me at least, that English was sorely lacking so we adopted words from other cultures and languages (or sometimes objects (futon) or activity (karaoke)). There may be only three prime colors, but you can't paint a rainbow with just those three, and you have to blend and mix them to get a full spectrum of color.

Many musical terms in German are going to be Italian borrowings also. Many scientific terms in German will draw heavily from Greek as does English and other European languages. Swedish scientists started the convention of naming living species from Latin terms as Homo sapiens and Canis lupus. There are so many cross borrowings within the community of European languages. These Indo-European groups pinch a lot words from each other.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Many musical terms in German are going to be Italian borrowings also. Many scientific terms in German will draw heavily from Greek as does English and other European languages. Swedish scientists started the convention of naming living species from Latin terms as Homo sapiens and Canis lupus. There are so many cross borrowings within the community of European languages. These Indo-European groups pinch a lot words from each other.

So why to concern for a linguistically pure English?

 

[Jonathan Bailey]

So why to concern for a linguistically pure English?

I like the way educated American speak English in America. This is the way Californians in san Francisco speak English. Southerners sound ignorant. The Bronx vernacular sounds steet-punk-like. Ebonis sounds mentally retarded. My beef is not with all the foreign borrowings in English. It's the way the language is abused in America. The British dialect sounds refined. The Aussie dialect sounds agrarian: crude. Saying MATE like MIGHT and such. Southern drawls sound very aggravating to my nerves. Saying PINT for PAINT and FAHV for FIVE. Saying MILE for MAIL and HAY-OW-OHND DAH-OW-OOG for HOUND DOG.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Southerners sound ignorant.

I've never thought that.

The British dialect sounds refined.

How so utterly typically foolish American of you. It's nothing more than the way they talk. Many of them, regardless the accent, are blokes and wankers.

The Bronx vernacular sounds steet-punk-like.

I once knew a couple from there. "street punk" never crossed my mind in regards to how they talked.
Why not just drop the hate? Even Californians get stereotyped, with the "valley girl upspeak" being one that is heavily ridiculed and mocked throughout America. This "pure America" you speak has only ever existed in people's imaginations. It's not real, and it's a delusion that is setting you up to go from a bitter middle-aged man to a grumpy old man who hates everything. Just accept that it doesn't exist and things will improve.

 

[Sand Dancer]

The American Indians are represented in cowboy movies, children's stories and cartoons. Friendly Native Americans helped feed the hungry pilgrims when winter was coming close.

I do hope you're not taking that stuff as reflecting the way it really was...

 

[fantome profane]

I like the way educated American speak English in America.

I like pineapple and hot peppers on my pizza. But I would not mandate that everyone has to have it that way, nor do I look down on those whose choose to have it differently.

You are trying to present your own aesthetic tastes as moral values. And it is coming across very shallow (to say the least).

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Most Of America’s Terrorists Are White, And Not Muslim