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[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Which actually makes sense when you remember that English, before the Normans at least, was very close to dutch.

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

And it's all because they are germanic languages (at least old English is), and this is the same in German (vier und zwanzig).

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Modern English is still a Germanic language, but with a LOT of Latin and French thrown in.

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Yeah, and then we got better

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I really, really struggle to see how the Normans made English "better".

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

They made a successful cipher that has thwarted their enemies into perpetuity.

[-] OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah, the same way Linux was able to thwart hackers for as long as it did.

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