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[MTL]

MTL Wrote:

French is a joke as a language.  It only has 50,000 words.

Then what does that say about English? 

Because about 40% of English is either based-upon
or borrowed directly from French.

It says nothing about English.

Just so you know -- English has roughly a million words in it.

Well, then I would say that it says something very specific about English;

It would say that it says that

1.  English has about 600,000 words of its own,
and roughly 400,000 either based-upon
or borrowed directly from French.

2.  I think it  also says that despite English having so many words of its own,
it still felt the need to use some excellent French words

(....of which, there are a bit more than 50,000, incidentally).