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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Aren’t one of the invader groups that he fought off the Saxons and other Germanic groups?

[–] Bricriu 15 points 1 month ago

I knew several of these words! Hooray for the remnants of pre-semester-abroad self-taught Welsh!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Nice to see the Celtic languages referenced by smbc. Da iawn.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

inspiration taken from the 'Once and Future' comic series perhaps? pretty much this exact thing happens in it. it's quite short and finished, highly recommend it!

[–] jeeva 1 points 1 month ago

Came to say roughly the same thing!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is the definition of English as a “French-German creole” (or even a romance-germanic creole) at all mainstream in linguistics? I was under the impression that mainstream linguistics classifies modern English firmly as West Germanic, and discounts the Normans’ infusion of French vocabulary into it as inconsequential.

[–] wanderer 13 points 1 month ago

I don't know about that but definition, creole, romance, impression, classifies, modern, firmly, discounts, and infusion all have french origins.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

My headcanon theory is indeed that English is a creole language.

Mix the grammar, verbes and functional words of the lower-status people (natives, imported slaves) and nouns of the higher-status people (invaders, colonizers and masters) and boom, after a few generations you get a creole language.

This theory works surprisingly as well for English as for, for example, Caribbean creoles.