Submitted 21 hours ago by DarkBluemetal@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUL29y0vJ8Q
No, it isn’t.
It’s a Germanic language* with a strong French influence, and the influence of pretty much every other language.
*A Germanic language is one that comes from the same precursor language that produced German.
Any linguist would tell you this, it’s pretty surface-level stuff.
The video covers that in the first few minutes.
The Romans would have hate crimed the French (again) if they saw their pronunciation “rules”
French is just badly pronounced English. Nevermind that it technically came first. They just couldn’t quite invent English before the English did.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Save ya a click, lmao no. English is a Germanic language.
Weird to even suggest it
fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 21 hours 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 19 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.
silverchase@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Aïe quante beulive its naute romantique!