In fact, (I think Eli Harman has done some of this) there is a small movement to restore english to its germanic roots by eliminating french, latin, and greek terms. (It sounds beautiful when you do). German has one weakness english doesn’t. Otherwise they’re beautiful together.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-27 20:29:16 UTC
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@NoGuiltStoic @Ozpin_88 @roytapel @JohnMarkSays Nope. Our language and latin, both evolved from indo european. English is a (west) germanic language with verb order different from latin. We lost prefixes and suffixes during the various invasions and migrations. Retaining common german, political french, and intellectual latin.
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@NoGuiltStoic @Ozpin_88 @roytapel @JohnMarkSays Nope. Our language and latin, both evolved from indo european. English is a (west) germanic language with verb order different from latin. We lost prefixes and suffixes during the various invasions and migrations. Retaining common german, political french, and intellectual latin.
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