seattle.politics

Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
>Soupy Sales 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:
>> >>>>>> 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.
>>
>Who speaks the "Norman language"? Do you? The fact is, we are speaking a
>language called "English". English isn't French, French is French, you
>are stupid.

Modern English is a mixture of old English and old French, idiot.

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Ray Fischer
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