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[MetalSlimeHunt]

I approve of English for the versatility that is conveyed through the usage of its gargantuan and esoteric lexicon.

[MonkeyHead]

Sesquipedalians of the world coadjute!

[Skyrunner]

Forsook, lest some sort of desultory epicaricacy arise! Sepulchral fugues are often effective against an obdurate man's soul.

[RedKing]

Wait....so Yoda was Welsh? Or conversely, all Welsh are Yodas? I must ponder this....

[MonkeyHead]

For an example of my particular dialect, hit YouTube for the film Twin Town (set in and around where I grew up), the "comedy" rap group Goldie Lookin Chain, or the BBC sit-com Gavin and Stacey.

[Mr. Palau]

Relevent.  The English Language in 24 Accents.
The English Language In 24 Accentshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM&feature=endscreen

[Andrew425]

I like English for it's ability to make up new words.

It's ability to take other languages and use their words is also cool.

Much better then French, which I do not like speaking

[Vattic]

Relevent.  The English Language in 24 Accents.
The English Language In 24 Accentshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM&feature=endscreen

Sad to say he missed the two accents I'm most familiar with: Derbyshire and Bristol, not too bad, though.

[Mr. Palau]

Can anyone make a sentance out of only English loan-words off the top of their head?

[scriver]

Impossible unless you don't count the small words. And you also have to define what a loan word is. Or rather, at which point a loaned word becomes an owned word.

Maybe I am overthinking it.

[Vattic]

Not overthinking it too much scriver. The main issue is that many words that are standard English today were not once; One example being most of our legal terms being French originally.

[Skyrunner]

Actually, if you stick to the simple structure of subject + verb, you can make short sentences with loanwords, I think. I'm sure there is at least two loanword subjects and one loanword verb.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Or rather, at which point a loaned word becomes an owned word.

All words to the English! All language to Merica!

[kaenneth]

http://xkcd.com/771/

[Mr. Palau]

Got one:Shoguns brainwashed Shaolins.  All loan words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Chinese_origin

Hard part is actually finding a verb, most loan-words appear to be nouns.

Actually, if you stick to the simple structure of subject + verb, you can make short sentences with loanwords, I think. I'm sure there is at least two loanword subjects and one loanword verb.

It was hard to find one that didn't make sense without using articles.