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Relevant and entertaining: Why Shakespeare Could Never Have Been French by Tom Scott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUnGvH8fUUc https://www.youtube.com/watch?

• dhosek 2y ago
  Not quite what I was expecting—I was thinking that it was going to be because English has a somewhat weird history, being a Germanic language that’s incorporated a rather large amount of Latinate vocabulary between the Romans and the French. This allows for differing registers in language that don’t exist in other languages because there’s a choice between Latinate vocabulary and Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, something which Shakespeare also made great use of.