Rowan Collins wrote:
On 19/09/05, Gerrit Holl gerrit@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.
I was joking; I know English is a Germanic language. but among all Germanic languages, it has borrowed most from French. It looks far more like French than Dutch or German do - and the Scandinavian languages are even more remote. It may be a Germanic language, but it's a bit of the ugly duckling among them (-;
Gerrit.