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I think English may be a better example; we just stapled chunks of vulgar latin to an inconsistently simplified proto-germanic and then borrowed words from eve
by x0x0 2y ago
I think English may be a better example; we just stapled chunks of vulgar latin to an inconsistently simplified proto-germanic and then borrowed words from every language we met along the way. Add in 44 sounds serialized to the page with 26 letters and tada!
- WalterBright 2y agoThe Norman conquest of England means English is a language with barbarian syntax and French nouns. It's a happy mess of cultural appropriation! Squeezing the lot into 26 characters was simply genius - enabling printing with movable type, Morse code, Baudot code, ASCII, etc. Of course, then icons came along and ruined everything.