That is very interesting. As you most likely know, Borges was famously a huge anglophile, he once said "I find English a far finer language than Spanish" in an interview. There's a video of his reasoning:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Spanish/comments/13cg3xv/jorge_luis...
I tend to agree with him. I am not a native English speaker and also find it more expressive than my mother tongue.