Why doesn't German borrow Latin/Greek root words like English?
They do, just less since English words have French origins
>>216618805German is very literal.Like science is literally Nature-wise-ship. Ship as in craftsmanship not the boat.
>>216618735I hope this is real I'm not going to check because if it's not I'll be disappointed
>>216618735>Why doesn't German borrow Latin/Greek root words like English?why would they? why does english do it?
>>216618950Its real but neogelosim
>>216618912"Science" comes from the latin word for knowledge. That's just as literal as "wise-ship".
>>216618984English didn't, Normans invaded and imported french nobility
>>216618984>why does english do it?cucked by the normans
>>216619022Many latin borrowings/latin based neologisms postdate norman rule.
>>216619000Yeah but it's a dead language so it's better than using a word you already know.Automobile sounds better than horseless carriage
I still can't get over Dutch words like honkbal and doodslag.
>>216618735Anti - ἀντί (Greek)Baby - baby (English)Pille - pillula (Latin)
>>216619085>So it's better than using a word you already know.why? Seems like a total non-sequitur.
>>216619107bodied that freak lmao
we call them "p-piller" (p-pills, from "preventiv")
>>216618912more like nature knowledge creation
>>216619107B O D I E DODIED
>>216619087why not?
>>216619022Borrowing from French didn't really start in earnest until the end of the 14th century, and Latin terms - in most cases - are modern adoptions
>>216618912More like "knowship"
Antibabypill literally has more Greek and Latin loanwords than birth control pill.What the fuck are you talking about?Pill is a direct loan from Latin in both German and English.Baby/Birth are Germanic words.While control is Latin in origin it was loaned from French while 'anti' is a direct loan from Greek to German.So the German word has more pure loans from ancient languages.
Wonder what it is in Icelandic. They're the only ones keeping it real.
>>216619313That's how long it takes to trickle into English as the nobles used french until they no longer had land in France
>>216619375I just got the idea from some American language YouTuber making fun of German. You lazy to research German desu
>>216619085No it's just a literal translation because it's a lot cleaner than loaning. English also takes the spelling and everything so you get a mess of mixed spelling systems.>>216619475They started using English pretty early on and Anglo-French ceased to have native speakers by then. It persisted for a while longer but in a bizarre Englishy form.
>>216618912Don't base your knowledge on memes.sciene - Wissenschaftnatural sciences - Naturwissenschaften
>>216619475Nobles used English though, hence the fact that men liked Henry of Grosmont referenced their Englishness to excuse their 'poor French' even whilst writing in that language, and the influence of English orthography on later Francophone texts.French was still a language most nobles - and wealthier merchants - were expected to learn, given the English, and latterly British, monarchs didn't forgo their claims to the French throne until 1801
>>216619701The French in English mostly comes from Parisian French later on. And the spellings, which have influenced pronunciation, come from 18-19th century French orthography and/or Latinisations.
>>216619107He's toast, he's basted
>>216618735The problem about Germany is that they put a verb in the end of a sentence even though auxiliary verbs appear in its second part.It makes it hard to read.
some germanic languages just haven't been that sodomised by the french yet here we call a doctor an arts (doctor)vetenerian an animan doctor, tentist a teeth doctor,...i can go on but the better question is why english is bastardised french. and then they they make fun of ik ook with their monolingual mongrel speak. self awareness: 404
>>216620041>artsborrowed from Medieval Latin arcīāter, from Late Latin archīāter, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιατρός (arkhiatrós).
>>216620041>ik ooklol
>>216619208m-may i get some p-piller OwO
>>216620673It is probably hard to swallow.
>see retarded thread>it’s japaneseWhy am I not surprised?
>>216620754
>>216618912Science is a meaningless word, it's short for natural sciences (plural).
>>216621647based autist
>>216621258the look i will give you after cracking a useless joke
>>216619313No that's completely wrong
>>216620041Because when I borrow words I am beautifully blending the best vocabularies, but when you do it you are a stinky ik ook orangutan.
