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The Anglish Times: the news in Anglish, a kind of English without borrowed words from other tongues
(theanglishtimes.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2024
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When I was a child, I spoke like a child. Now I am a man and I speak like the King of England!
English is three different languages in a trench coat. It’s all borrowed to some degree.
Most linguists formally classify English as Germanic (West Germanic, alongside Frisian, Dutch and German, though one Norwegian linguist made a case for it being North Germanic), though some people refer to it as a Romance-Germanic creole. It is quantifiably true that, if you want to read Old English, knowing Icelandic will be more helpful than knowing modern English.
And that as a native English speaker, my English improved by studying Latin.
Three languages?
Not sure what the third one is. You could make an honest argument for a number of languages to be number 3.
I don't think it is literal 3, just a play on 3 X in a trench coach. I think I always see the meme as 3 of something but I am not sure.
If you're going to make these extremely complicated jokes, maybe you should explain the joke as well just in case an idiot like me comes along lol
I am not the original commenter, I am just sharing my interpretation
So you're saying it's a conspiracy?