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who the hell disliked this video? jeez its not that bad....
JacobRicheson 8 months ago 2
He's acting like it's just German/French. There was a massive Norse influence on the language that he's not mentioning.
NewYorkFlavour 1 year ago 2
@NewYorkFlavour as I've told someone else who has commented on the same thing, he did mention the Jutes who came from modern day Denmark. this is a watered down lecture, and he only briefly mentioned that influence. I agree that he should have emphasized the Norse influence, because it's one of the reasons why English phonetics changed so much, and why are letters and sounds hardly match up.
NorseRonin 1 year ago
English feel´s close for me. but i think that english is more closer to french than to german.
Gott2070 1 year ago
you are a funny guy lmao!!! i got an exam tommorow and i swear everything i have learnt is made a million times easier with you!! haha thanks
Ehtishaam786 2 years ago
@Ehtishaam786 totally agree
equn 2 years ago
they didn't speak french to impress one another. that language was spoken by the court for the obvious reason - they were french! it's just that there's been a mixture of the two languages and the middle english has been developed. and it sounded more french than english.
nevilethefathamster 2 years ago
He's leaving out Spanish and African influences on English.
AkuaRising 2 years ago
It's up to a million words now. This video was from the 90's.
DeuxofHearts 2 years ago
Appantly we actually have 900, 000 words! ( The larger sum must be true cos I have read Greek has 700,000)
22poopoo 2 years ago
He doesn't know exactly how Chaucer spoke.
22poopoo 2 years ago
ENGLISH IS A GERMANIC LANGUAGE
Trouweman9 2 years ago
Yes, and who's denying it ?
KommieKillah 2 years ago