• 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Or as a classical philologist I know likes to say:

    (translated from German) „English? You mean this regional third-class Latin dialect?“

    (He is a man with strong opinions, who speaks Latin basically fluent, English not so much)

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      LOL, which is funny because it’s really more like a regional third-class German dialect with the “Latin Vocabulary Add-on Package.” The rules, especially as actually spoken, are much more German, and while you can calculate the actual number many different ways, of the most commonly spoken English words, the Germanic ones dominate.