English is losing this battle so hard, and on multiple fronts. I don't know if you're an Arrested Development fan, but after Buster learns Arabic, he says something that sounds like a cough and when they ask him if he's okay, he tells them that it was a word for laundry, "but like a child's laundry- we don't really have a word for it in English." I laughed pretty hard at that.
We're becoming more concise, but not in a good way that is dense with meaning, like you get from using subtle words. We're just losing meaning. It's also happening to our idioms, though in a different way. Specific things like "sour grapes" have become one-size-fits-all for things like "being a bad loser." Even our dictionaries are giving up.