Nine
Catarine
I feel like crap.
There’s no equivalent in Arrisan Standard. The language we learn in school, the one we use to communicate because it’s the language of the empire, is a formal and controlled language. They don’t have expletives or negatively charged words. You have to construct “crap” by using the building blocks to describe “unsanitized waste products that belong in a recycler,” which doesn’t have the same ring.
Crap is a word I learned in elementary school while following my father across the devastation of America and siting new bridges and great works. English is a delightfully flexible language, and so it has survived in crevices across the world.
I don’t think mainland America will ever flower into a land of a hundred languages like old Malaysia. But it’s hard to
