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minus-squareBenLeMan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up52arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoOf course you realize that English is a Germanic language? Therefore it is you who have strayed from the proper words. 😉
minus-squarediverging@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 months agoGerman is not the same as Germanic. Both German and English evolved from a common ancestor, which we call Proto-Germanic. ‘Who’ and ‘Where’ are ‘*hwaz’ and ‘*hwar’ in Proto-Germanic. I would say that in this case German strayed more than English.
minus-squaresilly goose meekah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-22 months agoWho = hwaz = wer Where = hwar = Wo
minus-squareSippyCup@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoWe added a bunch of French. It’s not a romance language by any stretch but it’s kind of a Francish one. Francish being a Celtic word, because we added a bunch of those too.
minus-squareBenLeMan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoAnd lots of straight up Latin, yeah.
minus-squareSippyCup@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoI just looked it up, German isn’t even the biggest influence. French and Latin are. German is 3rd OUI OUI BON BON LE PETITE CROISSANT EIFFEL TOWER I AM LE FRENCH NOW MOTHERFUCKER
Of course you realize that English is a Germanic language? Therefore it is you who have strayed from the proper words. 😉
German is not the same as Germanic. Both German and English evolved from a common ancestor, which we call Proto-Germanic.
‘Who’ and ‘Where’ are ‘*hwaz’ and ‘*hwar’ in Proto-Germanic.
I would say that in this case German strayed more than English.
Wat?
Who = hwaz = wer
Where = hwar = Wo
We added a bunch of French. It’s not a romance language by any stretch but it’s kind of a Francish one. Francish being a Celtic word, because we added a bunch of those too.
And lots of straight up Latin, yeah.
I just looked it up, German isn’t even the biggest influence. French and Latin are. German is 3rd
OUI OUI BON BON LE PETITE CROISSANT EIFFEL TOWER I AM LE FRENCH NOW MOTHERFUCKER