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Most of our Latin-based vocabulary came to English not directly, but via French. So wouldn’t learning French be more useful as a means to building erudite Engli
by umanwizard 7y ago
Most of our Latin-based vocabulary came to English not directly, but via French. So wouldn’t learning French be more useful as a means to building erudite English vocabulary?
- blaesus 7y agoIndeed, about 29% of English vocabulary came from French; yet another 29% are directly from Latin[0]. Take your comment as example: excluding the Anglo-Saxon words, 5 are directly from Latin and 2 from French: Latin words: Latin, Latinus vocabulary, vocabulum directly, directus via, via erudite, eruditus French words: French useful [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language_influences_in_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language_influences_in...