On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:38:23AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Kevan,
On Saturday 19 November 2005 05:30, Kevanf1 wrote:
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I sometimes wonder how many people actually realise that English, spoken all over the world, is actually derived from ancient Germanic languages.
English (as spoken all over the world) is the biggest mutt of a language ever (and I love it). It has roots or strong influences from languages of the British Isles, Northern Europe, French, Latin, Greek and even Arabic. The French influence from the Norman conquests gave English its horse-of-a-different-color vowel scheme.
Arabic, yes that's true. sometimes when I'm looking at a new language, no matter what it is, it's always shocking how similar some words are to English. The person who brought up things about Germanic / German, very true. German can be linked to almost every area of the World. German is very similar to English, probably because English speakers borrowed from it heavily. Latin is like a Worldly language. I think everyone should know at least some of it because it's used so often in Science. Can't stand french though lol, I hate it. Horrible language. (My Opinion). I know English, pretty good amount in German, some Arabic, but not enough to talk for more than a few minutes, little Latin, Non Standard latin, a few Asian words.... Not much... SMaLL amount of Italien, mainly because of the movies I have in it. And like 3 sentences of Russian. Not easy to learn though for me. I'd like to learn more German, Italian, Russian, Latin, Non standard Latin, Arabic, and Portuguese... I think I spelled that wrong. But those are my main ones.
Kevan Farmer
-Allen. Lol look I made a man in the middle attack on "sigs" lol.
Randall Schulz
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