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.
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.
omega_x3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
English: the mother bastard language.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Oi, 'ands up, and pass over all your djectives, mate.