On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:48:55 +0100
Rainer Fiebig via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> wrote:
> That's kind of a misconception: as English is a western germanic
> language it's not that German made its way into English but English is
> *based* on German.
Ahh true, to the purists, English is not a language… it's a composite
of German, French, Italian, Spanish… and lots of others.
Some might say English is a "language" that beats up other languages
and steals their vocabulary.
It doesn't mean the source language is immediately understandable by
those that speak its derivative though even if individual words can be
identified. :-)
--
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)
I haven't lost my mind...
...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
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Rainer Fiebig via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> wrote:
> That's kind of a misconception: as English is a western germanic
> language it's not that German made its way into English but English is
> *based* on German.
Ahh true, to the purists, English is not a language… it's a composite
of German, French, Italian, Spanish… and lots of others.
Some might say English is a "language" that beats up other languages
and steals their vocabulary.
It doesn't mean the source language is immediately understandable by
those that speak its derivative though even if individual words can be
identified. :-)
--
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)
I haven't lost my mind...
...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
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