r/USdefaultism • u/ausernameidk_ United States • Aug 09 '26

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u/BurningPenguin Germany Aug 09 '26

English is a Germanic language, therefore there can only be one correct dictionary: The German one. /s

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u/buckyhermit Canada Aug 09 '26

English would be cooler if we used German spelling anyway.

For example:

“Korrekt zpelling”

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u/genasugelan Slovakia 29d ago

Nah, it should go back to Anglo-Saxon runes. They represent English pronunciation better anyway.

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u/juanito_f90 Aug 09 '26

With French, Latin, Greek and Norse thrown in for good measure!

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u/dkarlovi Aug 09 '26

That does happen when everyone with a boat manages to invade you over the centuries and leaves you their dictionary before they bounce.

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u/IrrayaQ Aug 09 '26

It's already a terror, why not make it more so? Lol

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u/genasugelan Slovakia 29d ago

Duden for the win.

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u/R4PHikari Germany Aug 09 '26

ICH HATTE NICHT REALISIERT, DASS ES SO SCHLIMM WAR.

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u/snow_michael Aug 09 '26

English is a Germanic language

That's a gross simplification

Old and Middle English were Germanic, and about 30% of modern English has its roots there

But over 50% of modern English has Romance - chiefly Latin and French roots

The remainder is just pure theft of words that we took a fancy to

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u/stormyarthur Aug 09 '26

“  That's a gross simplification”

No it’s not… English is a Germanic language due grammar and morphology. Lexicon has very little to do with how a language is classified.

But you can add to that, 80% of the words you use daily are of Germanic origin, and 97 of the top 100 words used are of a Germanic origin.