Aug 19, 2023
A Turkish-British writer reflects on the country’s loss through her own experience of losing — and relearning — Turkish today
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A Turkish-British writer reflects on the country’s loss through her own experience of losing — and relearning — Turkish today
r/Korean on reddit is so weird. one can't talk about language purity there. they will turn into intellectuals and tell you there's nothing wrong with english words entering the korean language quite frequently (even though perfect korean words for said english word exist). they haveee no clue nor can they relate to the feeling of one's culture or language being taken over by americanised globalisation. which makes me think that subreddit is mainly full of americans. they will downvote you to filth if you support language purity (or at least the issue of english sticking its leg everywhere).
there's a difference between other languages (like english) taking over your own and a language stemming from other languages. chinese influences in korean, latin in english, arabic in urdu/persian etc are different. that's how these new languages originated. and then stayed like that for centuries. english in the current era is affecting languages differently.
and there's NOTHING wrong with trying to preserve one's language especially in today's world where apparently english and american things are supposedly better and cool. I'm not korean but I 100% relate to koreans raising issues if language purity. my own country often addresses this problem too.
and you really have NO say in this if you cannot relate to it mainly because it is your language and country messing with others' languages and cultures and I honestly don't even know what your culture is. maybe shut up when foreigners not from your country, with a language not yours talk about their own local issues smh. this applies to all cultures and languages that want to see their cultures preserved and carried on and not taken over by some other, not just korean.