On 19/09/05, Gerrit Holl 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 ;)
I can only respond that "I will fight you on the beaches..." [I'm sure you know the rest] ;)
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.
Oh please! I joined this when the servers were down. I love to be a troll. I do it all the time on Groklaw, and paraphrased my wikipedia profile there. Generally I am more comfortable lurking on this list, and I would hope that most of us are experienced enough to understand that any discussion of English, its dialects and origins, stands a very good chance of disintegrating the way this has. Please let's try to be edifying.
On 9/20/05, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
I can only respond that "I will fight you on the beaches..." [I'm sure you know the rest] ;)
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.
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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
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