if english is a germanic language then why don't english people have a german accent?
>>224472383Why do Swedes and Germans don't have the same accent?
english is a creole. germanic frenchified mongrel speak. that it sounds vastly different from actual germanic languages, do investigate and tell me all about it
thereof the learned dispute, as we say here
>>224473977That's just vocabulary and they have slightly more romance loanwords than the rest of us do. Syntactically, grammatically and to large extent phonetically though, English is very much a Germanic language.
if french is a romance language, why do people use it platonically?
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>>224474076>vocabularycase in point
>>224472383Great Vowel Shift. German has been fairly conservative pronunciation-wise, while English has not been.
>>224474137storge and philia?
>>224474290English doesn't even sound the same across counties in England, and I flat out refuse to believe the Bristaliens aren't descended from hobbits.
>>224474210That particular word is borrowed into several other Germanic languages and it is acceptable to use it. Like in Norwegian, yes "ordforråd" is preferred, but both "vokabular" and "leksikon" are acceptable to use.
>>224472383We kind of do though, have you ever watched those what English sounds to non speakers videos? Germanic languages to me sound as if is continuously trying to consume their words as if taking large bites.
>>224474210Basic, every day vocabulary in English is largely Germanic. French words are usually technical speech. You can type an entire paragraph using no French words, but you can't do the opposite
