English is an incredibly dynamic language with very loose rules. If a loanword sounds exotic, well that's half the fun.
English is an incredibly dynamic language with very loose rules. If a loanword sounds exotic, well that's half the fun.
English tends to just copy, at least from other latin-script languages...
Now, one can basically create an infinite number of words in some languages with compound words (eg German) and agglutination (eg Turkic or Uralic languages); it makes sense to exclude those (to avoid counting infinities).
Here's a source (from a collaboration between Dictionary.com and Oxford University Press) that basically concurs that English is the language with most words (excluding the results of agglutination):
https://www.lexico.com/en/explore/does-english-have-most-wor...
EDIT to add language (family) examples and this:
Here is The Economist with the cop-out answer that it's difficult to count:
https://www.economist.com/johnson/2010/06/23/the-biggest-voc...