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Old 03-20-2008, 02:24 PM
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Aww...well, you'll learn that I can be a silly reactionary sometimes. At worst I can be downright Victorian about :looks around: certain subjects.

I good part of it is the English language. What we call English wasn't spoken until around the reign of Edward III (when the cultural/political difference between France & England first became firmly planted). The Normans spoke French, and their subjects spoke Saxon. A 12% of the English language is directly from Latin too, because of the priests.
That explains why a language that is supposed to be germanic is so latiny. lol I don't really believe that it can be called germanic when the vast majority of its influences are from the languages with latin roots.
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