seattle.politics

Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
>Ray Fischer wrote:
>> Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
>> >Ray Fischer wrote:
>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >Modern English has plenty of loan words from many languages.
>>
>> Now you're reduced to childish quibbling. It's not a matter of "loan
>> words". Modern English is fundamentally different from Old English.
>>
>No, Modern English can trace its roots back through Middle English and
>to Old English, even back to PIE. Modern English isn't French, although
>French too goes back to PIE.

As I suspected, you're an idiot, more interested in clinging to your
cultural arrogance than you are in learning something.

Well, I tried.

>> > It was
>> >undeniably affected by French. It isn't a "merging" of French, however.
>>
>> "The English language that is spoken today is the direct result of
>> 1066 and the Norman Conquest. Modern English is vastly different
>> from that spoken by the English prior to the Conquest, both in its
>> word-hoard and its grammar. In order to understand what happened,
>> and why, it is necessary to look at both English and Norman French
>> before 1066, and then the Middle English that resulted from their
>> interaction."
>> /GeoffBoxell/

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