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ConsitutionalHistory t1_irbxpxs wrote

Reply to comment by the__truthguy in Where did the English language REALLY come from? by MagicRaptor

Forgive me but that's a gross over-simplification as it doesn't account for Danish influences, Celtic, etc. or the myriad of other peoples who came and went to the British Isles.

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the__truthguy t1_ird848j wrote

Too bad. It's not a novel; It's a 400 letter reddit comment.

Without a doubt, English, in its beginning, was a Germanic language. You can cry about that all the way home. It's been loaded up with a ton of loanwords over the past 1,500 years, which makes it more Latinized than other Germanic languages, but that's about it.

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Wintersbone7 t1_irgze4o wrote

Language is more than just vocabulary. It is the grammar structure that makes English a Germanic language. It has a shit ton of Latin based words though

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