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

"Custos Custodum" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:23:16 -0000, "Walker" <walker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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>>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.
Complete rubbish!
>
>> 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.
Complete rubbish!
>> 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.
This response (antwort) negates your claim that English grammar and 
vocabulary is similar to that of German. What absolute rubbish you write!
>
>>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.
>
Complete rubbish!
>