Friendly reminder that English is a Germanic language.
thanks I nearly forgot
>>52573901
Proof by helmet? There have been found hundreds of these in Slavic lands, Southern Spain, hell even Malta and Cyprus. Does that make the respective languages Germanic?
>>52573901
more in common with french than german, just the sentence structures are german so it gets lumped in as germanic
c'est vrai mon gros ami
>>52573972
>more in common with french
apart from loan words, what?
Why they put a mustache on the helmet ?
Friendly reminder that Mandarin is not an Indo-European language.
>>52573901
I always see that specific helmet/a reconstruction of it in posts about Anglo history/pride. What is it and why does it seem so important?
>haha us germanics master race amirite???
>>52574042
I consider English a Germanic langage but 30% of French vocabulary is more than a few loanwords
>>52574042
>apart from anything that lets you write complex sentences
Tbh like 20% French, 50% German and 30% mixed old words.
Also, daily reminder that phonetic languages are for plebs
Inb4 ghoti
Inb5 Finns meme language
This little debate over the English language has happened so many times now that it almost seems pointless to go over it again.
>>52574090
It's called the Sutton Hoo helmet. It was part of a massive trove of Anglo-Saxon artifacts from which a lot of our knowledge of them is derived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo
>>52574160
>>52574193
loanwords don't determine language family
>>52574341
Oh really? :^) You must be new here
>>52574382
Thats why I said it's a Germanic language
>>52574097
t. rgczywycywcywyzwywywyzczwcyccyczwz
I am new here, is this some kind of /int/ meme? Since when was this up for debate
>>52574439
>>52574341
>>52574249
Who gives a shit, it's a useless West Germanic language
>>52574525
it's a meme but some people genuinely think English should be a Romance language because of French and Spanish loanwords
>>52574540
R-Rude
>English is a Germanic language.
>Anglais est un langue germanique.
>>52574540
norsk bosserov
>>52574505
you forgot your diacritics
>>52574695
English is a bastard rape child of European languages and should just be recognized as such. Same for the English people.
>>52574784
So are we.
If you know where the components of the language came from and you know roughly into what the language is divided by these components and if everyone is in agreement with these facts then what is there to actually gain from arguing over this point?
Would you have a heated debate over whether the glass is half full or half empty?
>>52574784
et vous n'est pas?
>>52573901
You sure? Too many non Germanic words make up the very core of English vocabulary.
It should be classified as a creole of german and latin.
>>52574824
>>52574885
That's precisely why those are the only two good countries in Europe
>>52574909
>>52574909
>a creole of german and latin
>>52574939
Suck my fat cock you fucking fagget.
>>52574540
>norwegian calling ANY language useless
>>52574985
YOU CAN SUCK IT TOO BICTH!!!
>>52574885
et vous non ? *
>>52574695
I'm more of a 'glass half smashed upside someone's head' kinda guy
does anyone need to be reminded of that, though?
>>52573901
I have a question. How can I learn it as fast as possible. With these infinite ocean of meanings of the same word that english has???
>>52575057
strap the fuck up
>>52575236
Context, friendo
>>52575318
english is bastardised frisian wew
>>52575236
Immersion
>>52575382
He meant context for words gives different meanings, ironically enough
Wo sünd miene Germaansche Briuder?
>>52575112
>et vous non?
>and you no?
>et vous n'est pas?
>and you is not?
wouldn't it be,
>et vous êtes pas?
English is a Germanic language where more than half the words are French or Latin in origin
>>52575435
You're my Germanic brother lad no homo
>>52573901
Thanks for the reminder,John
>>52575476
Dude what the literal fuck are you trying to say here
>>52575643
die american
>>52575701
Can't speak English, French, OR German huh? Should be
>Der Amerikaner
>>52575701
Die
Bart
Die
>>52575435
>who are my germanic brothers?
I dont speak german, am I doing it right?
daily reminder that if your native language isn't germanic, you aren't white
>>52575476
I find "et pas vous ?" to more natural than what the other anon said ("et vous non ?") but both are correct. If you really wanna repeat the verb, then you have to be really formal, so it would be "et vous ne l'êtes pas ?" ("and you're not it?", literally). But as I said, it's too formal, unless you're talking to your boss or your teacher. And even so it would be weird maybe, using "vous" instead of "tu" is polite enough by far in all situations.
>>52575435
Where is that dialect from? Is it someting Eastern? The ü/i confusion usually comes from there, am I right?
>>52575896
what are slavs then
>>52574695
>>English is a Germanic language.
>>Anglais est un langue germanique.
>Engels is een Germaanse taal
Only Britbongs from East Anglia, Kent, York and Northumbria count as Germanic
Rest are mostly Celtic
Foxas habbað holu and heofonan fuglas nest
Foxis han dennes, and briddis of heuene han nestis
The Foxes haue holes and the birds of the ayre haue nests
Foxes have holes and the birds of heaven nests
>>52574160
Many "loan words" are from latin too, which share a common origin with French of course.
But it is still a Germanic langauge.
Scots (not Gaelic) is actually more purely English because it was not subject to Norman rule and has less French loan Words because of it.
>>52578510
what language is each line?
>>52574540
>Norwegian
>Who's speaking English
>On an English speaking anime image forum
gee anders
>>52577944
Mongols
>>52578875
old english (550-1066)
middle english (1200-1450)
early modern english (1500-1700)
modern english
If English is Germanic, why can't I understand German?
Checkmate, Deutschfags.
>>52574249
>50% German
That said the most widely used words are Germanic.
>>52574540
West Germanic > North Germanic < East Germanic
>>52579859
ich bin fik
>>52582288
i mean fick
>>52582374
>>52582288
"I am fuck"
okay
>>52579859
cos you're an uneducated american't
>>52582420
No, German does not make sense to a native English speaker who does not speak German. A native English speaker who does not speak French could still read French and recognise enough words that they roughly understand what is being said.
>>52582795
nah, german is more readable than french imho.
>>52582420
There is like 10% mutual intelligibility between English and German. Unless you're asserting that everyone aside from Americans picks up the German language though osmosis.
>>52583089
your opinion is actual shit, because there are twice as many words from French and Latin in origin as there is to Germanic
>>52583089
even b4 i learned spanish and italian i could get the gist of a lot of french, so idk what you're talking about
>>52573901
Look at that gay porn mustache. What a faggy looking helmet
Helmets like this were far better looking
>>52583143
german words are more commonly used though.
e.g. dast ist ein
>>52574160
To be fair the people that say English is the Germanic language with the most Romance influence forget that French is the Romance language with the most Germanic influence.
>>52578190
Engleza este o limba germanica
>>52583214
Those words mean nothing, they are not used in English, they are German, the only one that remotely even looks like the English version is ist
Que est un are just as similar to that is a to Dast Ist Ein
There are far more easily recognisable words from French and Latin
>>52583294
I mean Das not dast. It might not look similar but it sounds similar and it is the origin of those words. That is a = das ist ein
>>52583257
to be fair you don't know anything about spanish or italian to say such a thing
>french rapists ruined a beautiful germanic language and introduced their Saracen-worshiping speech
Harold Godwinson, oþþe Harold II (c. 1022 - 14 Winterfylleþ, 1066) wæs se endenīehsta Seaxisca Engla cyning. Hē wēold of 5um Æfterran Gēolan oþ 14um Winterfylleðes, 1066, þonne hē wearþ in þǣm Beadwe Hǣstingum gecweald.
Haroldes fæder wæs Godwin, se onwealdiga Eorl of Westseaxe. Godwin wæs sunu Wulfnoðes Cildes, þegn on Sūþseaxum and wīfode tuwa. His ǣreste wīf wæs Þyra Sveinsdōttir (994 - 1018), Swegnes I Dena and Norrena Cyninges dōhtor, hwelc Swegn Cyning wæs ēac cyning ofer Englalande. His ōðer wīf wæs Gyþa Þorkelsdōttir, suna dōhtor þæs Swēolandes wicinges Styrbjörnes Starkes and þridde dōhtor Haroldes Hǣwentōþes, Dena and Norrena cyning, fæder Swegnes I. Godwin and his ōðere wīf hæfdon twēgen suna: Harold and Tostig, and āne dōhtor Ēadgyþ Engla Cwēn (1020 - 1075), Ēadweardes þǣs Andetteres cwēn.
>>52574909
>You sure? Too many non Germanic words make up the very core of English vocabulary.
Nah, the "core" vocab is still Germanic.
Also, as already said: loanwords do NOT change family, and grammatically English is Germanic as fuck, just compare it with Afrikaans.
>>52582795
Deluded ramblings of a shitposter. You'd probably figure that travailler is traveling then?
>>52583141
What say you? Was sagst du? Barely similar indeed. Cheers for the exact number of "mutual intelligibility".
>>52583356
thank god we don't speak that barbaric shit
>>52583344
M8 no.
>>52583384
cherry-picking a sentence, go to a german wikipedia article, then switch it to french
and i estimated that cause i can get like 10% of german and dutch, not to mention the australian agreed with me
>>52573901
>Germanics
>Freindly
It's basically all warrior culture. Pacifist germanics is absurdly recent. I mean even fucking Switzerland has a stupid amount of military tradition.
>>52574631
>>52575382
>>52583356
English no longer sounds anything like this beautiful language. So much lost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tanuomTvKwE
>>52583389
>Literally uncultured swine
You can't listen to that and not weep at our current language's state.
>>52583511
t. Prussia pro
>>52583356
Most of the "ruining" was made at home by English speakers, like the Vowel Shift, the stupid spelling rules and the lack of flexions.
>>52583548
What does this "t." thing mean? I feel like it appeared like two months ago and now it's everywhere.
>>52583558
how come when brazilians laugh it sort of sounds like 'huehuehue'?
>>52583908
It'a a finnish thing, I forget the word exactly, but It means regards.
>>52577944
blacks but wrong colour by accident
>>52574985
English is a creole, of German and French; West Germanic Anglo-Saxon and Norman French.
Britain is like one of those Caribbean islands where the inhabitants speak creole languages except on a much larger scale and they take themselves much more seriously.
German is a language, French is a language, English is a creole.
>>52573901
excepto por todas las palabras latinas
Except for all the latin words
>>52573901
LMAO
nice joke
>>52574086
>Friendly reminder that Mandarin is not an Indo-European language.
>Finnish is a non Indo-european language
coincidence?
>>52577944
a linguistic group that has nothing to do with race.
>>52588909
slav is a race and a language too
>>52589106
Not really.
Keep in mind that Russians were banged by mongols for 200 years. Not even kidding.
Southern Slavs by Turks for centuries.
We have only language in common.
>>52589186
>mongol meme
Are you really so stupid to believe that a rapebaby could anyhow survive in the Middle Age?
>>52583356
A surprising amount of that is still understandable, and assuming that's legit how they'd write, some of it is almost like a word-for-word transliteration of how we'd say it today, eg:
>Haroldes fæder wæs Godwin, se onwealdiga Eorl of Westseaxe.
Harold's father was Godwin, the (he?) [something] Earl of Wessex.
>His ǣreste wīf wæs Þyra Sveinsdōttir
His first wife was Thyra Sveinsdottir.
>Godwin and his ōðere wīf hæfdon twēgen suna: Harold and Tostig, and āne dōhtor Ēadgyþ Engla Cwēn
Godwin and his other wife had (had done?) two sons: Harold and Tostig, and a (an?) daughter Eadith [something] (Anglo-Queen?!)
>>52591714
now compare old english to modern german and youll see that there's frequently hardly any difference between words.
>>52583271
Inglise on germaani keel
>>52574057
>have moustache
>can't show it off in battle with my face guard down
Saxon ingenuity
>>52591952
Eeh, you could think of it as on the other end of a spectrum between English and German, with old English as a mid-point, but there are obvious differences.
>>52573901
English is Romantic. It has more words that are faithfully Latin than French does, and French also contributed to English. English may have been at one point Germanic, but after 1066 it became Romantic. Most words in English have their root in Latin:
>Eye - oculus
>Very - Veritatus (see Vrai/Verdad in French/Spanish)
>-tion - suffix from Latin for "The process of"
>com- - prefix from Latin "cum", to join together
>Spirit - Spiritus
>Respire - To breathe
>Possible - stems from Latin for "Can"
Near any verb in English is Romantic.
I just remembered, I once took a Calvin and Hobbes strip with plenty of text, and selectively blurred words based on their origins!
>>52592444
It's scandi. Has more in common with Norwegian than old English.
>>52573901
>His language is LITERALLY a rapebaby
>>52573972
Language families are based on nothing but structure
>>52592873
>majority of his country is mixed race
