OKay. But why isn't german the international speak.
Because we won the war.
Actually, it's because we're the biggest economy, and because lots of people speak it already because of British colonization. Also, German is just hard to pronounce--too many glutterals.
Also, it's the very haphazard nature of English that makes it so interesting, you see. We have the most great literature of any language just because it's so complicated and has so many nuances. We borrow words from other languages when they are the best ones to describe something that was explained in that language. Besides Schadenfreude, an even better example is the French word deja-vu. We use it all the time, so much so that we don't even think of it as being French anymore. At the same time, let me bet that all your computer words over in Germany are English words.
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