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K. Ryabitsev

My kid: "Why is English so messed up?"
Me: "Because it's actually an Atlantic islander pidgin, first influenced by Germanic and then French-speaking colonists."
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cybertailor@wetdry.world

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@monsieuricon vikings participated too, they brought these horrible "th" sounds

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paulmckrcu

Paul E. McKenney

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@monsieuricon The story I heard was that English is what you get when Germans attempt to speak French. ;-)

But given a perfectly logically structure language, it would be messed up within two generations. Because messing it up would be seen as being cool.
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