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This is more or less completely false. English has an unusually high number of loan words from French (on the order of 10k or so, I think), and this has made th
by PaulDavisThe1st 4mo ago
This is more or less completely false. English has an unusually high number of loan words from French (on the order of 10k or so, I think), and this has made the language less Germanic than its historical origins would suggest. But English existed before Norman French arrived in the British Isles, and is still at heart a Germanic language.
- dgellow 4mo agoDid you actually think I wanted fr-GB to replace en-GB? It was a joke based on the Norman French references from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English
- PaulDavisThe1st 4mo agoI've seen more absurd ideas :)
- dgellow 4mo agoThat’s fair