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I wouldn’t say historically a dialect of German. English and German are both Germanic languages, so closely related languages not dialects of either.
by kelipso 1y ago
I wouldn’t say historically a dialect of German. English and German are both Germanic languages, so closely related languages not dialects of either.
- weinzierl 1y agoYou are right, of course. My point was more that German nowadays borrows more from English than vice versa. I should not have written "historically" (and have deleted it since), because that is obviously wrong. What I meant to say is that over time the direction of influence switched around.
- z500 1y agoExcept it didn't get those Germanic qualities by borrowing them from German, it got them by shared heritage.