• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    17 hours ago

    It’s weird that both France and Germany are as low down the list as they are, since English is a Germanic language with an absolute fuckton of words rooted from French.

    • nightlily@leminal.space
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      7 hours ago

      The common ancestor of standard German and English is ~1600 years old. Quite different languages grammatically.

    • Witziger_Waschbaer@feddit.org
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      15 hours ago

      Well, not too long ago there was a part of Germany where people learned Russian instead of English. The French just hate English I guess.