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I read something about how English was simplified as a result of the Viking invasion of England in the middle ages. It sounds like koineization. English might b
by mtdewcmu 13y ago
I read something about how English was simplified as a result of the Viking invasion of England in the middle ages. It sounds like koineization. English might be weird, but it seems to be weird in a way that makes it highly exportable, like a successful product.
- squeed 13y agoThat's right. Old English has grammatical gender and noun cases (like modern German). Modern English retains case only for pronouns. They were lost when the Danes invaded. The language was simplified to a mutually-understandable subset.