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Argh, yet again I had another "debate" with someone about the Wonderful English language and its roots.
To put it simply he WAS one of those who took AP English way back in HS and KNOWS that English is a romance language...
Took him down a few pegs with the following...
So if it's basis is Latin, then there should be no reason as to why almost all of our basic words (word you used almost every day, such as a/an, I, this, that, etc.
I asked him to explain why these aren't some variation on une, ego, quid, quo... then he just quit... (BTW those English come from an [one,] Ic [self], this [pronounced like thees], thaet [pronounced like it is now)
yes we have a lot of latin in our language, what with the Church of Rome being big, and French Speaking vikings invading the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons, of course, I had thought about speaking to him in Old English and then some in Middle... but I didn't want to have to open up word to get the eth/thorn or wyn letters, and Middle English spelling is just.... well there's a reason Chaucer is hard to read...
Of course I think he would be the type that would bite my head off for ending a sentence in a preposition (something English speakers CAN do thanks to the Germanic background, and is regarded as OK in the modern era.)
on a completely unrelated note I love my favorite quote recently...
Modern English is the result of Norman Men-at-arms trying to pick up Saxon Wenches, and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
Oh and a second one.
From the WoW Boards, I just love seeing, Blizz hates the Horde... with no real reason (hmmm always seemed that they hated the Alliance due to you know, just how easily you can be 10 levels above an alliance town that's away from the major cities and completely kill anything/everything)
ah must be because they got the pretty-boy not evil looking Blood Elves, and water-walking got nerfed because of Moonbrooking.
To put it simply he WAS one of those who took AP English way back in HS and KNOWS that English is a romance language...
Took him down a few pegs with the following...
So if it's basis is Latin, then there should be no reason as to why almost all of our basic words (word you used almost every day, such as a/an, I, this, that, etc.
I asked him to explain why these aren't some variation on une, ego, quid, quo... then he just quit... (BTW those English come from an [one,] Ic [self], this [pronounced like thees], thaet [pronounced like it is now)
yes we have a lot of latin in our language, what with the Church of Rome being big, and French Speaking vikings invading the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons, of course, I had thought about speaking to him in Old English and then some in Middle... but I didn't want to have to open up word to get the eth/thorn or wyn letters, and Middle English spelling is just.... well there's a reason Chaucer is hard to read...
Of course I think he would be the type that would bite my head off for ending a sentence in a preposition (something English speakers CAN do thanks to the Germanic background, and is regarded as OK in the modern era.)
on a completely unrelated note I love my favorite quote recently...
Modern English is the result of Norman Men-at-arms trying to pick up Saxon Wenches, and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
Oh and a second one.
From the WoW Boards, I just love seeing, Blizz hates the Horde... with no real reason (hmmm always seemed that they hated the Alliance due to you know, just how easily you can be 10 levels above an alliance town that's away from the major cities and completely kill anything/everything)
ah must be because they got the pretty-boy not evil looking Blood Elves, and water-walking got nerfed because of Moonbrooking.
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