I've seen this type of story so many times it almost seems like a template:
There is a variant of our [primary audience's] native tongue. Its user base is growing. Soon you might be forced to learn this strange culture/young people's bastardization of our language to function in society!
It's an interesting topic, for sure, but the consequences are always so overblown.
I wonder if this is a common story in other languages.
Very common in France and Canada I expect. English has always happily absorbed words from other languages. That's why it's the de facto lingua franca...
yeah it's darwinian. The british aren't too happy about american bastardization of english, but they don't have much of a choice. We're much better at exporting culture.
I've always been fascinated how Hollywood can produce movies that are globally palpable.
Bet everybody else gets their untranslatable peanut butter (cultural quirks that don't cross borders) into the movie jelly.
Sure I can make a crack here about America having no culture, but that's not it. Hollywood is good at this. They have their business tight.
There is a variant of our [primary audience's] native tongue. Its user base is growing. Soon you might be forced to learn this strange culture/young people's bastardization of our language to function in society!
It's an interesting topic, for sure, but the consequences are always so overblown.
I wonder if this is a common story in other languages.