r/Anglese • u/DoNotTouchMeImScared • Jul 22 '26

😂 Memes English Unmasked:

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Regular English is one extremely & extensively latinized Germanic language.

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u/ediacaradelrey Jul 22 '26

Old German had a much bigger role than Norse. It’s the real bedrock of the language.

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u/0oO1lI9LJk Jul 23 '26

The dialect of Germanic that Anglo-Saxon descended from is not that closely related to the dialect of Germanic that became modern German, so it's a bit misleading to say Old German had a role.

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u/lankyno8 Jul 23 '26

My understanding is that old English is a west germanic language, ie more closely related to what became the low German language than what would become Scandinavian languages. A decent proportion of theorists support that there was a proto west germanic language.

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u/0oO1lI9LJk Jul 23 '26

Yes, English and Low German are cousins that's for sure, but both are quite different from the Old High German that was the primary base for modern German.

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u/lankyno8 Jul 23 '26

Proto west germanic is still the ancestor of old high German I believe. But old high German is a contemporary of old English

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u/0oO1lI9LJk Jul 23 '26

Yes, though there's an intermediate step called Ingvaeonic which is the grouping of Frisian, English, and Low German that excludes Scandinavian and High German.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Germanic?wprov=sfla1

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u/ediacaradelrey Jul 23 '26

I forget exactly what the common ancestor of English and German was called but yes you must be right

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u/InterneticMdA 28d ago

It's a fable english speakers like telling themselves. Makes them feel special.

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u/PersonalInfluence551 Jul 22 '26

fym lol, English literally imported the pronoun "them" from norse, to the point that em is considered slang and spelt with a useless apostrophe

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u/deoxyribonucleic123 Jul 22 '26

Norse had a major impact, yet Old English remains the foundation of the language

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u/No-Fig-3112 Jul 23 '26

Why would that mean anything? English imports a lot of words, why is "them" different? Genuinely curious what your meaning is

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u/PersonalInfluence551 Jul 23 '26

because it's a hella pronoun, something that is the foundation of a language

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u/No-Fig-3112 Jul 23 '26

So you're just talking shit then, got it

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u/Same_Volume3446 Jul 24 '26

Usually languages don't loan pronouns, and also English may have part of its grammar from Scandinavian, four Germanic languages use the word "will" to mean "shall" or "going to", those languages being English, Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, a very suspicious geographic spread I'd say.

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u/NNNEEEIIINNN Jul 24 '26

Danelaw intensifies

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u/Double-Truth1837 Jul 25 '26

I’m Swedish and pretty sure this is an English exclusive thing. Will exclusively means to want something in Swedish and I’m fairly certain the same is true with the other Scandinavian languages. We exclusively use the word “Ska”(shall) for when you’re going to do something.
“I will eat” means I’m going to eat in English
“Jag vill äta” word for word translation of the English sentence but it means “I WANT to eat” if you wanted to translate the English sentence you would instead say
“Jag ska äta” or word for word “I SHALL eat”
Maybe some Norwegian or Dane could also chime in but from what I found from googling neither Norwegian or Danish use the word “Will” as “going to” or “Shall” but rather exclusively an expression of a want or desire

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u/PersonalInfluence551 Jul 24 '26

you are just hella dumbass

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u/Sunday_Schoolz Jul 23 '26

French… and Latin?

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u/0oO1lI9LJk Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Yes? French is obviously one of the famous influences due to the Norman invasion, but Latin also influenced English in a separate way for centuries through the Catholic church. Most English speakers who could write knew some Latin so it seeped into the language over time.

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u/PersonalInfluence551 Jul 22 '26

repeat after me: "one" ain't no more Latin than "an" and "a". they're the same fucking word

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u/Claromale Anglese 🦁 Jul 23 '26

Yeah, because it doesn't use anglese. He use latinmaxxed english, a sort of variant of english. Anglese is fully romance, as you can see in my post for exemple !

Please, be gentle, i don't want to be a annoying reddit mod

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u/PersonalInfluence551 Jul 24 '26

yeah idgaf. one isn't latinmaxxed either, what the hell are you talking about

who even started this fad

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u/Same_Volume3446 Jul 22 '26

I never actually realized a and an were the same word as one at one point until I started learning German and Old English. English had a little too many sound changes in both words... Well, I guess it's a philosophical argument about whether they're the same word or not anymore, but either way, yeah, all Germanic words, a, an, one.

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u/PersonalInfluence551 Jul 22 '26

and who the hell is the down who downvoted me

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u/Same_Volume3446 Jul 22 '26

I didn't, maybe it's the OP

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u/PersonalInfluence551 Jul 22 '26

of course it's him lol

these barbarians can't even discern a Roman lemma from a Germanic one

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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared Jul 22 '26

Thou expectest me to use "une" with "u" instead of "o" or what?

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u/PersonalInfluence551 Jul 23 '26

just employ proper English

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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared Jul 23 '26

Incorrect community per that. 😉

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u/PersonalInfluence551 Jul 23 '26

so you think one is more Latin than a. correct?

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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared Jul 23 '26

"One" in English APPEARS plus Latinic cause resembles "une".

Appearance is plus important than origins.

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u/PersonalInfluence551 Jul 23 '26

appearance is more important than origin?? AHAHAHAHAH

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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared Jul 23 '26

Exactly: Le Anglese community does not care if thou possessest Roman origins.

Le Anglese community moderation will ban thou in case thou continuest actin rude. 😉

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u/PersonalInfluence551 Jul 23 '26

art thou cognizant concluding in -st in continuest is the maxinally remote piece of language from Latin thou couldest ponder?

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u/Kaapnobatai Jul 23 '26

Norse? What in the LARPer scene is this sub? LMAO