America is a land of diversity. Many different people and cultures make this a unique country, and some would argue that is why so many immigrants come here. Of the 6,912 living languages in the world today, there are 311 languages currently in this nation (Robinson). Because there are so many languages and cultures here, the mixture of languages is bound to happen. Language is the means of communication between one person and another. Even though some would argue that foreign languages have diluted the purity of American English, I believe English was never a pure language to begin with, and the dilution of it has occurred in the past and is bound to happen because America is a nation of immigrants.
Before we even consider blaming other languages for diluting American English, we must ask ourselves a question; how can one call American English pure? British English is derived from French, Arabic, Hebrew, German, and many other languages (Harper). When the colonists came here, they......
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