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language for one, 'culture' is a french word or latin if we wanna go further.

• ekianjo 13y ago
  Language, it's not like you had a choice in the matter. The invasion of England by the French-Norman in 11th century did a lot more to implant French language into English than whatever cultural influence France had after that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England#Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England#Lan...
  • joyeuse6701 13y ago
    Just because you are invaded does not mean one culture is forced to Russia and France would be a good example. Another example: Japanese has taken a lot of french words as well, without having been invaded by France: http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/french.html http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/french.html
    • ekianjo 13y ago
      Please, don't compare the french influence in Japanese to the French influence in English. The french influence in Japanese is a best anecdotal, while French's influence in the English language was phenomenal. Look at what the English language look like in Beowulf and see how much french vocabulary has been borrowed from French since then. Now there's probably between 30 to 40% of words derived or directly taken from Old French in English. Nothing common with Japanese in that regard, and I speak Japanese myself so I know this matter fairly well enough.