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.

Your point, which is refuted by the examples given, including the Norman
language, was that languages don't merge. You keep making that silly
claim despite the fact (obvious by looking at any dictionary of American
English), that most words in American English were merged from other
languages, including Spanish, French, Latin, Greek, German, and many,
many more.