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11-28-2006, 08:55 PM
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But Romance languages are those ones descended from Latin, not influenced.
English has evolved, and is the germanic language that has been most influenced by Latin, but it's still a germanic language.
Old English, for example, is impossible to confound with a Romance language; you don't even need to understand it, you just need to see its structure.
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11-28-2006, 09:14 PM
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#402
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: London, UK
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Jillian's right. English may have been influenced by Latin, but it was influenced by a whole mess of other languages as well, and I'm fairly sure the main origins are Germanic.
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11-28-2006, 09:17 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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English is a germanic langauge, but it has been influenced PROFOUNDLY by Latin and Greek, but it's essentially germanic at heart. The sounds are usually not very pretty. It's a stronger langauge, German of course being very strong.
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11-30-2006, 12:11 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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In this day and age, I'd call English a mutt language. Its origins are Germanic, but it's definitely had much more than a little influence from other languages (Romance, predominantly).
I find it interresting, though... Most people say that one of the major pieces of evidence that English is not a Romance languange is that, while Romance languages has both masculine and feminine forms of many words, English does not (unless directly related to a male or female subject, like "his" and "her"). However, my wife, who grew up speaking German, says that German has masculines and feminines as well. (The most common being the number one. "Ein" is masculine while "Eine" is feminine. Yet they both translate into "one.")
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11-30-2006, 08:54 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: A box of cookies
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English is a Germanic language with a heavily Latin-derived vocabulary. To see the Germanic aspect, check out German grammer and Shakepeare.
German: Haben Sie ein Buch geschrieben? ("Did you write a book?" or "Have you written a book?")
From A Midsummer Night's Dream: "Have you the lion's part written?"
The fact that English has no gender case makes it a bit of an odd language. (Incidentally, German actually has three cases - masculine ( der), feminine ( die), and neuter ( das). All three words translate to "the".)
A bit of headache-inducing trivia: according to John McWhorter (Author, The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language), there's actually an African languages (Fula) with 14 gender cases.
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11-30-2006, 11:44 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Paisley, Scotland
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Fourteen genders? Damn. o_O
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11-30-2006, 03:49 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Los Angeles!
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Originally Posted by BeckySlater
At least Spanish is in the same linguistic group as English and has true cognates. A non-romance language, like Japanese, Russian or Gaelic will kick your ass.
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I don't think so. I have a few friends who are also Japan maniacs who only speak English or English and Spanish as their first language, who find Japanese a lot easier to learn than English. Ands, I went a few chapters into one of my Japanese textbooks and I found it was easier than Spanish, but I'm too lazy to actually learn it. I need someone to kick my ass I'm so lazy.
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11-30-2006, 04:13 PM
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#408
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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I volunteer.
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12-02-2006, 08:17 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Los Angeles!
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to kick my ass so i learn it?
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12-02-2006, 11:45 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Only if you want someone to, like I said, I'd volunteer happily enough. =P
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12-03-2006, 11:33 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Yay! If you could message me on the weekends on one of my screen names that would be great. But I warn you, once on my buddy list you will be pestered with much bitching when I'm bored. And random moments of mine that I must share to the world. ^.^
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12-03-2006, 11:40 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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If you could message me on the weekends on one of my screen names that would be great.
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I have no idea what that means. Screen names? Whats wrong with the weekends? =/
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12-08-2006, 10:25 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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*Whew*
I just finished reading through all of that. It was quite entertaining.
I like you, Omega.
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12-09-2006, 01:45 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Must have taken you at least an hour.
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12-09-2006, 09:09 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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(I hadn't kept track of time, but it probably did.)
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12-09-2006, 02:55 PM
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#416
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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I love how angry they get, and how fast I shut down the entire forum.
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12-09-2006, 05:02 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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As I said, quite entertaining.
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