Weird linguistic coincidences like that seem less weird when you remember that at its core English is just a strange dialect of German that’s been mugging other languages for loose vocabulary for a thousand years or so.
Don’t forget the English were ruled by a French bastard for a while so the language ended up with a bunch of words that are spelled a little odd but pronounced like the speaker doesn’t have the energy to use half the letters.
Yes, but at the end of the day, France and England are really more like one people divided by a thousand year old argument over whether German bastardized Latin or Latin bastardized German is the superior language.
Celtic, West Germanic (Angles, Saxons), Latin, Northern Germanic (Scandinavian), French, whatever. English is a number of languages in a trench coat, pretending to be a language.
You could have told me you were describing a new class in DnD and I would have believed you without a second thought
Weird linguistic coincidences like that seem less weird when you remember that at its core English is just a strange dialect of German that’s been mugging other languages for loose vocabulary for a thousand years or so.
Oi, 'ands up, and pass over all your djectives, mate.
Don’t forget the English were ruled by a French bastard for a while so the language ended up with a bunch of words that are spelled a little odd but pronounced like the speaker doesn’t have the energy to use half the letters.
Yes, but at the end of the day, France and England are really more like one people divided by a thousand year old argument over whether German bastardized Latin or Latin bastardized German is the superior language.
English: the mother bastard language.
Celtic, West Germanic (Angles, Saxons), Latin, Northern Germanic (Scandinavian), French, whatever. English is a number of languages in a trench coat, pretending to be a language.