Well, perhaps we can congratulate the German-speaking countries for throwing off the yoke of Latin! It did not happen in the Anglosphere because England was ru

Well, perhaps we can congratulate the German-speaking countries for throwing off the yoke of Latin! It did not happen in the Anglosphere because England was run by the Normans for hundreds of years, during which the common law system grew enormously... Let's also not forget ecclesiastic Latin! Significantly less common in the HRE since Martin Luther's protestations!