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  Is English a hybrid language?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.

  here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.

  i play - ich spiele.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  Although, thinking about it, there is a construction that French uses in place of a continuous tense:

  Je suis en train de marcher - I am in the process of walking.
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  Is English a hybrid language?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.

  here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.

  i play - ich spiele.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  @Scully

  There is no present continuous tense in French.

  Je marche - I walk/am walking.

  Ditto the past continuous.
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  Is English a hybrid language?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.

  here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.

  i play - ich spiele.

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  Ok, I take your point about gerunds.

  But, it's simply a fact that Old English (the language spoke in England before the Norman Conquest) use to have -s ending plurals.

  There were two types of plural endings in Old English.

  daeg - dagas (day)

  nama - naman (name)

  Sorry, this is just a fact. The influence of French, especially from 1066 onward, may explain why the -s plural ending became more popular than the -n ending, but it's just a fact that English always had -s plural endings for some nouns.
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  Is English a hybrid language?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.

  here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.

  i play - ich spiele.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  As for the gerund, check out this comparison between English, German and Swedish ...

  warning - Warnung - varning

  
  
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  Is English a hybrid language?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.

  here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.

  i play - ich spiele.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  @Anon

  The -s ending for plural nouns is actually from Old English, in other words English has always had that.

  daeg - day

  dagas - days

  As for the present/past continuous (I am/was going), well, French doesn't have that.
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  Dalai Lama asking boy to suck his tongue after kissing the child on his lips.

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  the dalai lama has apologised after footage showed him asking a boy if he wanted to suck the tibetan spiritual leader's tongue.. .

  his office said he wanted to apologise to the child and his family "for the hurt his words may have caused".. .

  the video also shows the dalai lama kissing the child on his lips.. soon after the pope alleged peodo activity .

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  Freaking weirdo.

  Check his laptop for child porn.
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  Is English a hybrid language?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.

  here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.

  i play - ich spiele.

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  @Scully - you're right English uses to do as an auxiliary verb in a way that most languages don't.

  However, French uses est-ce que (literally 'is it that') in exactly the same way, to form questions.

  E.g. Est-ce que tu as des freres ou des soeurs? - do you have any brothers or sisters?

  It's possible, perhaps even likely, that English was influenced by French in this way.
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  Is English a hybrid language?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.

  here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.

  i play - ich spiele.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  What I think about calling English a hybrid language is this: it's obviously a low-resolution answer to the question.

  Start digging, do your research, and it quickly becomes crystal-clear. English is a Germanic language which has a long, glorious history of borrowing from other languages.

  Start

  Begin

  Commence

  Initiate

  ^^^ four words that mean the same, but perhaps with different shades of meaning. Begin is Germanic, commence is from French, initiate is from Latin. I don't know where start comes from.
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  Is English a hybrid language?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.

  here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.

  i play - ich spiele.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  More evidence that English is a Germanic language ...

  Let's go back in time a little, to the language of Chaucer and Shakespeare, and compare archaic English with modern English and German.

  I have - I have - ich habe

  you have - thou hast - du hast

  she has - she hath - sie hat

  ^^^ This clearly isn't borrowed. It shows how English and German started off quite close and have grown apart for various reasons.

  Let's go back further, to Old English. English used to have 4 grammatical cases, again just like modern German.

  the king - se cyning - der Koenig

  to the king - to tham cyning - zu dem (zum) Koenig

  ^^^ Look at Old English's version of 'the' in the dative case. It ends in -m, just like German.
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  Disney Star Wars makes another retarded choice

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  what is it with disney star wars?

  why is it that seemingly everything disney touches turns to shit?

  what the f**k are these scooters doing in the book of boba fett?!

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  Disney's poor choices know no bounds. Apparently, Lizzo features in the latest episode of The Mandelorian.

  Lizzo is a fat black woman but I don't know what she's famous for. I'm guessing it's either singing, rapping or twerking her fat ass. Or maybe all three.

  RIP Star Wars

  https://youtube.com/shorts/5qYaCuMjQVw?feature=share