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No I don’t think you are
Let me explain
In a different thread, some posters posited, that Yiddish became a holy language, by dint of the fact that it has a long history of being spoken by Jews and / because much Torah has been communicated through it.
Therefore this poster is asking, if that applies today to English being as you have the same ideas, although obviously not the same history.
Namely, many jews speak it and a tremendous amount of Torah is learned and taught in it as well as many prayers are said using it.
We do know that until the expulsion of jews from England I believe in the 1200’s? There were jews living in England so presumably they spoke and learned in English as well as Hebrew.
So perhaps that gives English the holiness history as well.
Are we therefore to conclude that English is a holy language?
That seems to be the general idea of his post.
I’ll be happy to try to clarify any further questions