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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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