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[Gerrit Holl]

Rowan Collins wrote:
> 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.

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.

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