On 03/02/18 08:43, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Having so many words derived via French from Latin, English is also a > romance language to some extent. I know it's officially classed as a > Germanic language, but I can't see why. There seems to be no Teutonic > influence to speak of. Few words in common, very different sentence > structure, ...
Cow, Sheep, ... I think there are a lot of words in common. Not that I have any personal experience, but I've come across several reports that British soldiers stationed in West Germany after the war had no difficulty talking with Germans who spoke Platt-Deutsch (or however that is spelt). Modern English is an evolved mess of Norman French and Anglo-Saxon, and seeing as the Normans (Norse-Men) were really Vikings not Franks ... Cheers, Wol
