Re: English-esque Vocabulary Range

From: "Arthaey Angosii" <arthaey@...>
> Emaelivpair Muke Tever:
> >Well, English is a very wide-ranging language, and considering that it's
> >pretty much half French and has a wide technical vocabulary from Latin and
> >Greek, you have three major branches of PIE (Germanic, Italic, Hellenic) in a
> >comprehensive English-based IE list such as the AHD4's.
>
> Oh no, now you've gone and done it.  Now you're going to make me create a
> new language that Asha'ille can borrow from so that it can have lots of
> synonyms with different shades of meaning.  I hate you.  ;)
Aww :x)

In any case, is there a name for languages that have reached a stage like this,
having consumed another language entire for the use of .... acrolexy?

[The word 'acrolexy' is terribly cool, even if it doesnt exist.]

Incidentally, is there a (pseudo-)Latinate root for referring to Japan(ese),
similar to Sino- for Chinese?  My intuition tells me there should be but refuses
to supply the word.

    *Muke!
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