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[–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Because English is three languages in a trench coat.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    False. It's the runoff of a language-rich neighborhood. Stewing in a ditch filled with what looks like mud but smells like a dead family of possums at the bottom of a park trash can.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Also funnily enough, it's arguably the most representative of the Germanic languages as a whole. It started out as a form of Central Germanic. Then during the Viking Age it was heavily influencd by a Northern Germanic language, Old Norse.

    Even the French influence is a very specific variety of French, since the Normans were actually descended from Vikings

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