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Comment on Is English just badly pronounced French?
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Save ya a click, lmao no. English is a Germanic language.
Weird to even suggest it
silverchase@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
It’s like 30%. Anything that ends is -tion and -ce, etc. Lots of stuff. Not to mention it’s technically a cretin language, English. Not fully Germanic. You can speak it in a fully Germanic way, but most don’t or won’t.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
30% is high. It may have a lot of words from French, but they aren’t necessarily pronounced in a French way - they often become Englishized (Germanized?).
English is squarely a Germanic creole, with French being the single greatest contributor (courtesy of the 1066 Norman Invasion).
Today and English speaker can nominally understand middle English, and learn it in perhaps a week. I learned both Spanish and French, and French is so removed from English I can’t say I know it even today.
fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t have to do with how it’s said more than influence generally. Some words in Emglish simply wouldn’t exist that we use on a daily basis without French influence.