RNAi [he/him] to chapotraphouse • 3 years agoOh my! It keeps happening somehow!imagemessage-square71 fedilinkarrow-up1156
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minus-squareNaturalsNotInIt [any]hexbear2·3 years agoEnglish is a weird language because it's like a cross between Dutch and French, so it doesn't exist on a dialect continuum like most other European languages such as Spanish->French->Italian or Czech->Polish->Ukrainian->Russian. link
minus-squarePM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]hexbear2·3 years agoThat's not really the case. It's a Germanic language that happens to have a lot of French vocabulary. It's not a hybrid between the two link
English is a weird language because it's like a cross between Dutch and French, so it doesn't exist on a dialect continuum like most other European languages such as Spanish->French->Italian or Czech->Polish->Ukrainian->Russian.
That's not really the case. It's a Germanic language that happens to have a lot of French vocabulary. It's not a hybrid between the two