@nerthos @kaia You could just as well construct an opposite narrative where, if left to their own devices, the peoples of Europe will organically incorporate loanwords and phrasing from neighboring countries and cultures, slowly working to overcome the artificial language and political divisions of the continent (autocratically upheld for centuries first by feudal fiefdoms and then by their successors, the modern nation states) and any "purification" efforts are almost always chauvinist theater imposed by political elites.