Even Greener Pastures

And, although it’s just my personal observation, Germans sort of like English, or at least English words, for some odd reason. I never understood that. So, I think that means they readily adopt English words like “sorry” when there really is no reason for it.

But, English is not like that. While there are a few German words English has adopted, they pale in comparison to the number of English words German has taken on.

So, if the French are still wishing to keep their language “pure”, and they may have given up on it, the Germans seem to never have had that sentiment.

This would merit a thread of its own, I think. Feel free to split, Nikola.

Steven, in case you're not aware of this: what Germans used to say instead of "Sorry" was neither Entschuldigung nor Verzeihung, but, er, Pardon. Pronounced with a French nasal at the end. As my mother still does. 

Actually, German's had perhaps more than its fair share of purges. Without checking, I can think of at least two or three. The first one came quite early on, in the 16th or 17th century, when they tried to get rid of Latin loanwords. Until then, if I remember correctly, the German word for "surface" was "Superficies", which was replaced by "Oberfläche". A couple of hundred years later, it was about eliminating the arch-enemy, French.
And I'm sure everybody will be able to guess when last act of "purification" took place, non-specific, but actually also mostly about French. That's when we got Bahnsteig instead of "Perron" (platform) and Gehweg instead of "Trottoir" (sidewalk). People did accept these newly minted German words (mainly because everybody employed in any sort of official capacity was obliged to use them, I suspect), but I don't think any normal person felt they were a real improvement.

Mixed into those purges were almost continuous efforts to at least "Germanize" orthography, wherever particularly obstinate loanwords simply refused to leave the language. Thus, we write Perücke instead of perruque and Zentrum instead of "Centrum". As it's only been about 20 years since the last concerted effort of this kind was made (Friseur -> Frisör; Delphin -> Delfin), I'm confidently looking forward to seeing delightful little monsters like "gugeln" and "Softwär" appear - all in good time.

What about Serbian, Czech, Japanese, Swiss German, or Georgian, for example?