You are obviously a fan of Baron Arthur de Gobineau and his white
supremacist nonsense. You are a king of old chestnut sellers.
"Custos Custodum" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:54:09 +0000 (UTC), "hawker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> <flink@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>I hope you do not mind if I top post.
>
> Go right ahead! It identifies you as an idiot and will spare us the
> trouble of reading the rest of your posts in future.
>
>>Wright, the eminent Victorian
>>philologist, noted the total lack of German grammar in so called Middle
>>English,
>
> Still flogging this old chestnut, I see. Where, exactly, did he make
> this observation? Since he taught at Heidelberg for a time, it is
> inconceivable that he would be unaware of the very real relation****p
> between English and German grammar. We only have to look at the verbs
> and how they are classified into 'strong' and 'weak' and how the
> process of ablaut (swim, swam, swum, sing, sang, sung, bring, brought,
> think, thought) is mirrored between the two to realise that they are
> connected.
>
>>as well as massive word borrowings from Scandinavian
>
> Old Norse was a Germanic language too.
>
>>and Celtic languages,
>
> A load of place names and at most a few hundred other words from all
> Celtic sources is hardly a massive borrowing.
>
>>and even on a smaller scale French. Grammatically English bears
>>to relation to either archaic or modern German, so how can English be
>>derived from Anglo-Saxon? No, English is a pidgin language derived from
>>several other languages. This accounts for the mixed English vocabulary
>>and
>>the general lack of grammar. The final coup-de-grace arose when in
>>Northern
>>English the definite article THE replaced the German (masculine,
>>feminine,
>>and neuter definite articles (I forget the archaic German/Anglo-Saxon
>>definite articles, but in modern German they are die, der, das). So
called
>>Old English was in fact Old German.
>
> Didn't you just say it bore no relation****p to either archaic or
> modern German? At least try to be consistent with your nonsense.
>
>>All of this rubbish about 'Old English'
>>derives from Gobineau's book, The Inequalities of the Races..
>
> So where does all the rubbish you post derive from?
>
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