The fact is, Paul,  English is a mongrel language. Supposedly sharing the same provenance ( a Latin word) with German, it has lost all language "purity". The world's most pure language is Mandarin Chinese. There are no words in Mandarin derived from either Greek or Latin. All words in that language are "home grown"; for example, the Mandarin word for computer is  "diannao"; a combination of "dian" (electric) + "nao" (brain). The only foreign words in Chinese are mostly brand names like Aspirin and MacDonalds. And, there are many in China who don't even like that even though the teaching of English is mandatory in all schools in China. Go figure.

English is now the international language of commerce, science, aircraft controllers and the Internet. Is this a good thing? Definitely not.