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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.

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).

My point was that saying that simply because 40% of English is drawn from French says nothing about that quality of the language, which was the seeming implication of the question, given the context of the conversation between you and WoG.

All languages borrow words. You can't infer quality from that fact alone.