[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia English English

[James R. Johnson]

You can always trust the French for a quickie! :)  Just slip out the back
before they wake up.

James

PS - This is sarcasm.  Get over it.

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[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rowan Collins
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 6:25 PM
To: wikipedia-l at wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia English English

On 19/09/05, Gerrit Holl <gerrit at nl.linux.org> wrote:
> Since English is really a dialect of French, a lie bree is probably a
> place where you buy your books, as it is in any "proper language" (-:

I'm not 100% sure if you were joking or just labouring under a
misunderstanding, so I thought I'd point out that English is largely a
Germanic language, closely related to the various modern Scandinavian
tongues, and also to modern Dutch and German.

French is like a distant cousin (sharing
great-great-great-great-grandparents in Proto-Indo-European) which
recently had a quick affair, so that a few of her features show up in
the offspring ;)

-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]
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