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Slightly off-topic, but > Of course, language always evolves—it's not like anyone's worried that English borrowed too many words from French. I’ve known some
by kergonath 5y ago
Slightly off-topic, but
> Of course, language always evolves—it's not like anyone's worried that English borrowed too many words from French.
I’ve known some (English) people who very much are and go out of their way to use Germanic roots instead. When they can, because it’s hard to avoid using ~a third of your language’s vocabulary. When they cannot, they pretend it’s Norman anyway.
- rdlw 5y agoI once said that nobody can distinguish between Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Normans living in Britain today and that no one claims to be one rather than the other, to which an English woman in my class responded "well, except the Neo-Nazis". I guess there will always be someone, even 900 years after the fact :) (Just to clarify, I don't mean to imply those people you know are like that, just something that I'm reminded of.)
- usrn 5y agoI can definitely tell them apart but I'm just to the left of the nazis.