Oi, 'ands up, and pass over all your djectives, mate.
Weird linguistic coincidences like that seem less weird when you remember that at its core English is just a strange dialect of German that’s been mugging other languages for loose vocabulary for a thousand years or so.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
omega_x3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Don’t forget the English were ruled by a French bastard for a while so the language ended up with a bunch of words that are spelled a little odd but pronounced like the speaker doesn’t have the energy to use half the letters.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Yes, but at the end of the day, France and England are really more like one people divided by a thousand year old argument over whether German bastardized Latin or Latin bastardized German is the superior language.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
English: the mother bastard language.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Celtic, West Germanic (Angles, Saxons), Latin, Northern Germanic (Scandinavian), French, whatever. English is a number of languages in a trench coat, pretending to be a language.