On 20/09/05, Giuseppe DAngelo pippudoz@yahoo.it wrote:
English a germanic language? Impossible! An absurd notion! Lunacy! Exaggeration! Unadulterated opinionated insanity! Essentially misdirected ill conceived viewpoints. Troublesome tempestuous tapestries. As tasteless as a tarty tarantella. Significantly senseless. Quintessentially unquotable. Positively preposterous. Necessarily nonplussed and nominally abnormal. Exponentially and exceedingly uneventful. Undeveloped, uncorroborated, irresponsible, and finally, bountifully morally bankrupt. I opine that I have proven my point.
Yours truly, frankly, ecetera
Of course, if English truly were a Germanic language, it would look like this:
http://www.grijalvo.com/Citas/Peculiar_English.htm
(the second part is pretty neat, too, and a lot less well-known)
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk