Re: First Steps in ***bric - ***bric Dictionary and Grammar Website

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:23:16 -0000, "Walker" <walker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>To Fitlikeman. Sorry about top posting, but ***bric never really "died", 
>many ***bric words exist in Scots and even standard English, as well as
in 
>place-names.

You'd be hard pressed to list more than a hundred that aren't place
names or dialect.

> Also English is nothing like Anglo-Saxon/Old 
>English/Platdeutsch or whatever else you want to call it.

Nonsense. You're frothing again. The similarities are there to see for
anyone who takes the trouble to learn a little about both languages.
 
> Ever noticed the 
>prelieferation of Celtic auxillaries in English? 

What proliferation? (I assume that's what you meant). If you are
talking about 'progressive' tenses (I believe linguists call them
'aspects' nowadays) then yes, it is possible, even probable, that they
are due to Celtic influence, as English is unique among the Germanic
languages in possessing such a feature.

>Is that how Germans speak 
>German?

No, but German verbs closely mirror their English counterparts in most
other respects. Hardly surprising, given their common ancestry.