I love the description of English as "three different languages dressed in a trenchcoat pretending to be a proper language" :) I'm trying to learn German at th

I love the description of English as "three different languages dressed in a trenchcoat pretending to be a proper language" :) I'm trying to learn German at the moment, and it's fascinating seeing the similarities between the languages, and the things we used to have in common but got dropped or modified in English.