"Hawker" <hawker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:a5adnYGnkZ2QNO3ZRVnyvg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Top posting is a matter of some dispute. Some readers appreciate it.
> English is not German. The archaic German that was spoken in England was
a
> very advanced language which is unfortunately neglected by modern German
> speakers. Archaic German aka Anglo-Saxon, Old Saxon, Old Franconian,
etc.,
> bears little resemblance to English. If you only studied the Anglo-Saxon
> language instead of writing nonsense then you would be very impressed by
> this form of early German, but Chaucer's English has little in common
> with any form of German.
> <axel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:na8%e.16755$iW5.15434@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> In soc.culture.scottish hawker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<flink@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> wrote:
>>> I hope you do not mind if I top post.
>>
>> It's annoying... why do it?
>>
>>> Wright, the eminent Victorian
>>> philologist, noted the total lack of German grammar in so called
Middle
>>> English, as well as massive word borrowings from Scandinavian and
Celtic
>>> languages, 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.
>>
>> There is no 'general lack of grammar' in English. This is immediately
>> obvious when you hear someone who does not know English well making
>> grammatical mistakes.
>>
>> Nor is English a pidgin language - Modern English is derived via
>> Middle English from Old English (Anglo-Saxon). It has been influenced
>> by Old Norse - hardly surprising considering the political sway
>> held by Scandinavians in Britain at one time and the more or less
>> mutual intelligibility of the Old Norse and Old English languages.
>>
>> English vocabulary does borrow heavily from other languages but
>> that is not unusual. Most of the basic ordinary words that are used
>> in English can in fact be traced back to Anglo-Saxon.
>>
>> Axel
>>
>
>
And many people don't like it and plonk the offending posters in their
killfile.
PLONK!
--
Robert Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).
(When replying take pam away from peffers.
Scotland).
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