Am 18.11.21 um 22:21 schrieb Stuart Longland: > 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. That seems a bit too harsh to me. As I see it, English is a language that evolved from its base by integrating useful or chic elements of those languages that were present over time. A quite natural thing, I guess. And perhaps one reason why it became so successful.
> > It doesn't mean the source language is immediately understandable by > those that speak its derivative though even if individual words can be > identified. :-) > Yeah, that's a pity. But at least you have a head start should you ever decide to go for the real thing. ;) Cheers and good luck! Rainer _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
