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minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up58arrow-down2·16 hours agoMe when languages from different groups have different words for an object
minus-squarejanNatanlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·14 hours agoActually, English is a Germanic language. However, you are right that this specific word in English is not Germanic.
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 hours agoEnglish is a chimera that ate the faces of 3 other languages and wears their skins
minus-squarerustydrd@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 hours agoEnglish is the Dawson’s Creek Trapper Keeper Ultra Keeper Futura S 2000 of languages.
minus-squareDragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 hours agoWe could be using words descended from words the Visigoths used, but we’re stuck with Latin instead
Me when languages from different groups have different words for an object
Handshoes
bless you
Actually, English is a Germanic language. However, you are right that this specific word in English is not Germanic.
English is a chimera that ate the faces of 3 other languages and wears their skins
English is the Dawson’s Creek Trapper Keeper Ultra Keeper Futura S 2000 of languages.
Most words in English aren’t.
Those damn French.
We could be using words descended from words the Visigoths used, but we’re stuck with Latin instead