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minus-square@karashta@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish56•11 months agoIf this is his thought process, he should take it a step further. French is just badly pronounced Latin.
minus-square@Warl0k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish50•11 months agoMy mother (who is french) describes the language as “Latin, but mumbled around a cigarette”
minus-square@nilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish4•11 months agoWith more phlegm. So what’s German then? A bunch of that overlaps with English words too from my recollection.
minus-square@mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•11 months agogerman is just language lego - you just keep building new words from old parts.
minus-square6daemonbaglinkfedilinkEnglish9•11 months agoI choose to believe French is just ugly Catalan
minus-square@funkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish7•11 months agoit’s all PIE always has been
minus-square@force@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoBut in this case French actually is Latin. English isn’t a descendant of French, but French is derived mostly from Latin
If this is his thought process, he should take it a step further.
French is just badly pronounced Latin.
My mother (who is french) describes the language as “Latin, but mumbled around a cigarette”
With more phlegm.
So what’s German then? A bunch of that overlaps with English words too from my recollection.
german is just language lego - you just keep building new words from old parts.
Swedish checking in.
I choose to believe French is just ugly Catalan
it’s all PIE
always has been
But in this case French actually is Latin. English isn’t a descendant of French, but French is derived mostly from Latin