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With English, it's even more fun, because it was (1) first lightly Celticized, then (2) lightly Romanized, then (3) significantly Romanized by a close cousin of the Germanicized Romance Language that had been extra Germanicized by Vikings, then (4) Roman-frosted with a bunch of technical jargon, some of which seeped into the upper registers of "regular" speech, and finally (5) liberally dusted with a sprinkle of "Literally Everything Else."
Oh, and spelling will have stopped being updated sometime between steps 3 and 4, and immediately before most of the vowels changed sounds, because skibidi toilet rizz.
- Celts
  Romans
  Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Frisians
  Norse
  Normans (distinct from Parisian French)
  Universities in England forbidding the teaching or even speaking of English
  
  Angles, Jutes, Saxons and Frisians should be listed first, that's the starting point, anglo-saxon.
- 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)
  
  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.
- And then other languages are taking english words

I'm a European who visits Houston from time to time. And once I had this Uber driver who was very interested in European history. We talked about how the various European languages related to each other, and he said something that makes France make sense: "French is the result og Germanic people trying to speak Latin"
- But French started as celts (Gauls) trying to speak Latin, the germanic influence on it came later through the Franks.
  
  Maybe he said Gauls and I remember it incorrectly.
- We could have had the langue d’Oc.
  Instead the parisians forced the langue d’Oïl (modern french) upon us.

[email protected] would love this too, I'm sure
- Ooh, thanks for the rec. Subbed and crossposted!
  
  Yoooo, same - love finding new subs, thanks!

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