>The English Language Does Not Exist
>It's Poorly Pronounced French
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>The English Language Does Not Exist. >It's Poorly Pronounced French
It seems like it's a humorous pop linguistics history of the English language with a focus on its link with French
There are two principal races of the Britons, the Caledonians and the Maeatae, and the names of the others have been merged in these two. The Maeatae live next to the cross-wall which cuts the island in half, and the Caledonians are beyond them. Both tribes inhabit wild and waterless mountains and desolate and swampy plains, and possess neither walls, cities, nor tilled fields, but live on their flocks, wild game, and certain fruits...They dwell in tents, naked and unshod, possess their women in common, and in common rear all the offspring. Their form of rule is democratic for the most part, and they are very fond of plundering; consequently they choose their boldest men as rulers....They can endure hunger and cold and any kind of hardship; for they plunge into the swamps and exist there for many days with only their heads above water, and in the forests they support themselves upon bark and roots, and for all emergencies they prepare a certain kind of food, the eating of a small portion of which, the size of a bean, prevents them from feeling either hunger or thirst
-- Cassius Dio: Roman History, LXXVII.12.1-4.
>The English Language Does Not Exist
>It's Poorly Pronounced French
Nobody is surprised that barbarians speak a bastardized version of a civilized language instead of maintaining their own.
French is just mangled German. There, that was easy.
Isn't French like 80% Latin? Studying French I have stumbled upon some words derived from German though, which I found quite interesting.
Regardless it's a mutant tongue that shouldn't exist.
Every modern language is kind of mutant. But I agree, we should be speaking Latin to this day.
I actually got Wheelocks Latin and might start this summer
>subhumans impotently seething about Anglo superiority
>have to do so in their master's tongue
every time
Don't worry, soon it will be Arabic or Chinese. They will have the same merit as you, brutish conquest.
>oh yeah?!?! well soon ahmed or chang will be fricking my wife instead of you!
English is not even your language... without the Roman and Norman civilizing project you would still communicating through grunts and swamp noises while chewing on piece of bark.
That cover is probably humourous. Anyone with even a basic knowledge of linguistics knows that French influence on English is mostly lexical and therefore superficial, compared to e.g. Old Norse.
Regardless
>Cerquiglini
As a Frenchman, I do not claim this Italian immigrant.
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My primary discontent with the English spellings is the frequent misuses of "y",
(1) which has originally been defined as a vowel found in Greek loanwords in Latin language, but has been used for several representations of sounds inclusive of a consonant in English language,
(2) and often omits the etymological atmosphere of the words.
For those two reasons, I hope some scholars alter the spellings involving "y" broadly in following ways, of course without affecting how they are pronounced.
1. y at Ends of Words
>words of French-Latin origin
y -> ie
>words of Anglo and other Germanic origin
y -> ig, (i)j (based on historical transitions)
ex.
discoverie, communitie, crie(cry), deploie
hardlig(hardly), luckig(lucky), flig(fly), saig(say)
bij(by), mij(my), thej(they), spraj(spray)
2. y at Beginnings of Words
>words of Anglo and other Germanic origin
y -> ge, j (based on historical transitions)
ex.
geard(yard), gesterdaig(yesterday), gellow(yellow)
jouth(youth), jear(year), New Jork(New York)
3. y in Middle of Words
>words of Greek origin
y -> y (as is, since it's the only case of "y"'s appropriate succession.)
ex. hydrogen, system, psychologie(psychology), analyze
That's the summarie of mij thoughts.
Wishing jou a nice daig!
>rector of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
He's just mad that English is the more accepted international language.
>It's poorly pronounced French
Of course the frog doesn't like linguistic evolution.
Then how come I can understand someone speaking English but not French?
Probably by the fact that the grammar of french is obviously different, we don't have a word like 'pas' to confirm negation and we don't have gender in words which is funny when you consider English had gender during the Anglosaxon period and every word was written like tha hus waes gesheit.
Also we would write badly pronounced french, not "french bad pronounced". Grammar is the primary sticking point when learning a new language, French shares a lot of words in common with Dutch because the ancient Dutch ruled the french pissants under Karl Die Groot but no one is saying french is super gay dutch+latin with a celtic substratum. The grammar is what makes a language like Japanese hard to learn for people used to a SVO grammar system with its SOV system and general homosexuality, the cognates in japanese like onani being derived from the israeli name onan "to jerk off" doesn't mean japanese has anything in common with western languages.