2026-09-26 19:06 UTC
Because English is three languages in a trench coat.
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@fartographer@lemmy.world 2026-09-26 20:43
False. It’s the runoff of a language-rich neighborhood. Stewing in a ditch filled with what looks like mud but smells like a dead family of possums at the bottom of a park trash can.
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@mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-26 21:36
Also funnily enough, it’s arguably the most representative of the Germanic languages as a whole. It started out as a form of Central Germanic. Then during the Viking Age it was heavily influencd by a Northern Germanic language, Old Norse. Even the French influence is a very specific variety of French, since the Normans were actually descended from Vikings
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@Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-27 15:05
In a french coat