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The proof is simple.
Let's say that English runs into a language that has a word for a concept that English doesn't have. And English thinks that WOULD be a good concept to have a word for.
BAM!
Now it's an English word.
"Crap! We don't have a word for 'that evil pleasure that you feel when something bad happens to someone you don't like!'. And German does! Well, that's easily solved. . . " And then, "schadenfreude" is an English word. Heck, my spellchecker even recognizes it.
And that's why English has, and will always have, the best vocabulary on the planet. And on any other planet with verbal languages that can be pronounced by humans. Because, if English ever runs into better vocabulary, it just takes it.
Let's say that English runs into a language that has a word for a concept that English doesn't have. And English thinks that WOULD be a good concept to have a word for.
BAM!
Now it's an English word.
"Crap! We don't have a word for 'that evil pleasure that you feel when something bad happens to someone you don't like!'. And German does! Well, that's easily solved. . . " And then, "schadenfreude" is an English word. Heck, my spellchecker even recognizes it.
And that's why English has, and will always have, the best vocabulary on the planet. And on any other planet with verbal languages that can be pronounced by humans. Because, if English ever runs into better vocabulary, it just takes it.