Comment on Fart kontrol

• lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  and “fart” is where you get “fare”, as in to travel. or rather, we both got them from german.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ok, “fart” is where English gets “fare”, that makes sense I guess. Is that coincidentally where English gets “far”? Otherwise I’d think it’s closer to where we get “wide”. Like weit gefahren?

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• bricklove@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’d be more accurate to say they share the same origin. Swedish and English are both part of the Germanic language family.

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  • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    English has a lot of influence from both Germanic and Latin, to the point where I don’t think it’s reasonable to classify it as a strictly “Germanic” language.

    There are plenty of English words that can be traced to old Norse (i.e. Norwegian Viking occupiers, raiders, and/or traders).

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    • breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Linguists disagree with you.

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