seattle.politics

Ray Fischer wrote:
> Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
>>
>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>> Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
>>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>>> Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
>>>>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>>>>> Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
>>>>>>>> Soupy Sales wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Attila < wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> So it dies make sense. Eventually, most people will know
>>>>>>>>>>> English and Spanish, and the two languages will probably merge. You can
>>>>>>>>>>> fear that for the rest of your life.
>>>>>>>>>> None of us will live long enough for two languages to merge.
>>>>>>>>> You'll be long gone.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Name any languages that have "merged".
>>>>>>> English and French. Or rather, old English and old French to create
>>>>>>> modern English. Approximately. 1066, Battle of Hastings, Norman
>>>>>>> invasion, etc.
>>>>>> English and French didn't merge.
>>>>> You're an idiot. Oh, wait, "idiot" is one of those old French words
>>>>> that you believe is English. For that matter, so is "language"
>>>>> so you don't know what I'm saying, do you?
>>>>>
>>>> I do know what I'm saying. English didn't merge with French. You can see
>>>> that French still exists.
>>> LOL!
>>>
>>> You _are_ an idiot.
>>>
>> Whether that's true or not, at least I don't make the absurd claim that
>> French and English "merged".
>
> That's because you're an uneducated idiot.
>

He also doesn't know that the Norman language was merging of Old Norse
and the language of the area known as Normandy.