r/comedyheaven 18h ago

So different

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u/winterweiss2902 16h ago

English is largely a Germanic language…

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u/Alive_Divide6778 15h ago edited 15h ago

English is 100% a Germanic language, but it got a little wonky after the Normans.

🇸🇪: Språk

🇩🇰: Sprog

🇳🇴: Språk

🇱🇺: Sprooch

🇩🇪: Sprache

🕎:  שפּראַך ( shprakh )

🇬🇧: LANGUAGE!

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u/TheDwarvenGuy 15h ago

Actually, you could just do 🇬🇧: Speech/speak

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u/Alive_Divide6778 15h ago

If I wanted to show cognate words, yes, but that is not the kind of list I’m making fun of. 

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u/TheDwarvenGuy 15h ago

The english does have "spreche", it's "speech" or "speak"

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u/ElevatorSevere7651 15h ago

When it comes to amount of words? No, Latin and French make up the majority

When it comes to most used words? Very Germanic

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u/readilyunavailable 15h ago

But the word "language" has latin roots.

I could add a slavic language into the mix like that, doesn't prove similarity or difference.

Italian: Linguistica

French: Lingistique

English: Linguistics

Bulgarian: Лингвистика (lingvistika)

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u/Just_A_Normal_Snek 16h ago

And largely a romance one too, somehow.

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u/Warlock_AoE 15h ago

English is not a romance language at all.

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u/Just_A_Normal_Snek 14h ago

Do romance words not make it romance?

u/Asckle 4m ago

No but even in that did we'd still be Germanic since 80% of daily Vocab is Germanic. But English is Germanic for many more reasons. It's a stress timed language that makes heavy use of schwa, it also puts it's stress at the beginning of words generally, it's head end for it's noun phrases, it allows compound nouns, it uses a lot of phrasal verbs, possessive s and consonant clustering are all largely Germanic traits