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I mean compared to other indo European languages (like German for example) we don't even have the same sentencing structure and it collides better with latin that's where my confusion comes from
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Both. English is the bastard child of basically every language that ended up in Europe for an extended period. Greek, Latin, Germanic tongues, the works.
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english is a germanic language you fucking retard
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SNCA
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probably the foremost
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>>4148158 (OP)latin languages are indo-european stupid frog
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>>4148168Half of the English vocabulary is latin though
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>>4148173I meant Germanic sorry
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>>4148176>>4148179The actual answer is that it's a mix, it takes a lot from Germanic and Latin, with a bit of Greek and other shit mixed in for the hell of it.
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>>4148182I guess that would make sense but what would that categorize English in is it more Germanic or latin ?
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>>4148176it dosent matter, the core foundations of english originate from west germanic linguistics. its why german and english sound very similar
№4148189[Quote]
>>4148182>>4148186having a bunch of loanwords doesn't change the family the language belongs to
it's still structurally a germanic language
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its like if i make a cake and put strawberries on it and then you asked is it more cake or strawberry
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Latin is an Indo European language you Kraut caveman
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>>4148188No it's not we don't even have the same sentence structure
>>4148189I guess that would make sense but we have to acknowledge the latin influence in the English language too
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>>4148190In this case strawberries would make 60% of the cake
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>>4148189Ehhh, there are still a bunch of structural aspects that it took from Latin and Greek like pluralizations. It trips up both native speakers of germanic and romance languages so I hesitate to call it solely one or the other. The latin is too entrenched to just write it off.
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Youre part greek?
Unholy mutt whats your actual makeup
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>>4148210I don't think thats how languages work lol
>>4148212What?
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>>4148193germanic languages have two main tenses, past and present. latin has like five or six tenses, the difference is that in english we use branching verbs like "i WILL do something" or
"i HAVE done something" which is the same as in german. on the contrary latin languages tend to just use one word to describe these things. germanic languages require strict word order whilst latin languages it dosent really matter as long as the end has the correct tense. for example
>i write>i am writing>i was writingenglish
>scrib>scribo>scribeamlatin
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>>4148227Ohh alright I understand this part about verbs but what about sentence structuring? It's not the same in German
>>4148229What do we call this mix ?
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>>4148250thats because german is a different language. english has a germanic origin that dosent mean everything they do is exactly the same, as you already know that english borrows a lot from other languages like latin and french which changes it drastically but the foundation is germanic
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>>4148258Oh alright thanks I always wondered about this now I know
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English is a Germanic language that got raped by the French and as a result, its speaking and pronunciation is a complete mess.
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>>4148277Yeah we already came to this conclusion but thanks for the input anyway
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>>4148292In fact, the French influence got so bad that English speakers will pronounced any foreign word with a "zh" sound when the original word doesn't have that pronunciation.
Azerbaijan > "Azure bye zhahn"
Xi Jinping > "Zhee zhingping"
Parmesan > "ParmeZHAWN"
Beijing > "Bei zhing"
Another example is, they pronounce the Spanish "machete" as "muh SHetee" or Che Guevara as "Shay Gwuverrah" even though the ch in spanish is pronounced exactly the same as in most english words.
All because they still have PTSD from the French.
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>>4148323Dang I didn't know french folks had aura like that