[Wikipedia-l] English - a sub-vernacular of Norman French

[Andrew Gray]

On 20/09/05, Giuseppe DAngelo <pippudoz at 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)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk