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--- Jacques Deh�e <jacquesdehe@hidden.email> wrote:
> I dare say: no, it still retains it's Germanic
> structures
There's no danger in saying English is a Germanic
language. It shares all the basic grammatical
features one might expect of the family (the
past/non-past verbal distinction; ablaut (strong)
& dental (weak) verb distinction; much common
lexis and at least some of the Germanic sound
shifts.
> and the most common vocabulary usually has
> Anglo-Saxon origins,
True that. But vocabulary doesn't tell us what
family a language belongs to. They weren't sure
quite what to do with Hittite at first because it
had so many foreign words, but it turned out to
be related to IE.
Take a quick look at this sentence and tell me
what language family it belongs to:
"Omni Gall es divided in tres parts, de quo il
Belgas incollen un, in il ali l'Aquitanas, et in
il terti esun illose quo esun appellad "Celtas"
in sueir propri lingue et "Gallas" in nostra."
> but last estimate was that about 70% of the
> English lexicon was somehow rooted in Latin.
>
> Any comment ?
We are the Borg. You will be assimilated.
Resistance is futile: We have analyzed your
defensive capabilities as being unable to
withstand us. If you defend yourselves, you will
be punished with inane Americanisms. Teach us
your slang and surrender your lexicons. We will
add your philological and semantic
distinctiveness to our own. Your languages will
be adapted to service us.
> Thanks ! Regards, Jacques
Cheers,
Padraic
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vem Persaecion empuriase ed ec pasem emduriase!
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