So called Anglo-Saxon or Old English is German you dolt. Gobineau wrote a
racist book stating that Germans are the master race of culture heroes.
Anglo-Saxon=German: Anglo-Saxon=English, therefore according to this kind
of
racist filth "The English" are the master race and Celts are wogs,
"Custos Custodum" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:50:22 -0000, "Walker" <walker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>"Custos Custodum" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:28:38 -0000, "Walker" <walker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> wrote:
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>>>>"Custos Custodum" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:33:14 -0000, "Walker" <walker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>"Custos Custodum" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:23:16 -0000, "Walker"
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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.
>>>>>>Complete rubbish!
>>>>>>>
>>>>> OK, then. List them. In fact, I'll make it easy for you - list 50
>>>>> words of standard, modern English, no place names, dialect or
obscure
>>>>> technical terms, that can be unequivocally traced to a ***bric root.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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!
>>>>>
>>>>> Really? The core vocabulary of English is predominantly Germanic,
>>>>> especially when one looks at older, obsolete forms. English shares
its
>>>>> strong/weak verb classification with modern German and presumably
the
>>>>> other Germanic languages too. Verbs that are strong in English are
>>>>> usually strong in German, and the process of ablaut (e.g. sing,
sang,
>>>>> sung) is similar, if not identical, for both. English and German
verbs
>>>>> have only two 'true' tenses, the remainder being formed using
>>>>> auxiliaries.
>>>>> The comparison and position of adjectives follow the same pattern
for
>>>>> both languages.
>>>>> English word order is generally SVO. German word order is more
>>>>> flexible, but the verb is still in second place. What was ***bric
>>>>> (=Celtic?) word order? VSO?
>>>>> And yet, despite all this evidence of common ancestry, you continue
to
>>>>> deny that English is essentially Germanic in origin and claim
instead
>>>>> that it is some sort of amalgam of ***bric and Latin.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> How does it do that? All I have done is to concede that
'progressive'
>>>>> tenses (e.g. I am running) are not found in other Germanic languages
>>>>> and are probably the result of Celtic influence. I would guess that
>>>>> most languages exhibit external influences that are not shared by
even
>>>>> their closest relatives.
>>>>>
>>>>>>What absolute rubbish you write!
>>>>>
>>>>> It's still far short of the utter fantasy that you promote as
>>>>> 'academic research'.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>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!
>>>>>
>>>>> So prove me wrong! I have already indicated the main areas of
>>>>> similarity. Simply contradicting me adds nothing to your already
>>>>> flimsy case.
>>>>Wright, who was a famous 19th. century philologist and linguist,
proved
>>>>that
>>>>English arose from a mish-mash of Low German, Danish, Norse, and
Welsh,
>>>>to
>>>>which were added French and Latin words.
>>>
>>> What claims did he make for the Welsh influence, and what proof did he
>>> offer? Your use of 'Low German' in this context is misleading and runs
>>> counter to current academic practice.
>>>
>>>>Anglo-Saxon is ancient Saxon and
>>>>100% German.
>>>
>>> Well, duh! Actually, 'Anglo-Saxon' is an umbrella term used to
>>> describe the closely related Germanic dialects of the Angles and
>>> Saxons who settled these shores shortly after the Romans left. Related
>>> to modern German through their common ancestry, it is the foundation
>>> of modern English and is usually called 'Old English' nowadays.
>>>
>>>>Gobineau's theory of the recial supremecy of Germans is not
>>>>even accepted by Germans now-a-days, why try to flog old
Anglo-Saxonist
>>>>rubbish?
>>>>
>>> Who gives a toss about Gob****e's theories? You're frothing again.
>>> Time for your medication.
>>
>>Gobineau was the founder of German racism, to which you seem to be an
avid
>>admirer.
>
> How on earth did you arrive at that ridiculous conclusion?
>
>>You seem to know nothing about the history of ancient Germany.
>
> Don't believe everything you think you see.
>
>>Parts of England were settled by Germans after the fall of the Roman
>>Empire
>>in the West.
>
> No they weren't. They were settled by Germanic tribes. The ideas of
> 'Germany' and 'German' only came into being with the Holy Roman Empire
> in the 9th century, and did not become a political reality until 1871.
>
>
>>German ceased as a spoken language in the British Isles a long
>>time ago,
>
> German has never been spoken to any extent in the British Isles, apart
> from royal circles. The original Germanic dialects didn't really die
> out - they just evolved into something else. There's plenty of
> evidence of the continuity right through to the present day. They
> certainly weren't 'replaced', which I believe is your pet theory.
>
>> and the language we now call English does indeed bear traces of
>> German, but it also bears traces of many other languages.
>
> English is structurally a Germanic language - everything else is
> merely flesh on the bones, no matter how much that contradicts your
> crackpot theories.
>
>>To describe
>>ancient Low German as Old English is just nonesense.
>>
> You're the only one misusing the terms. Anyway, I've had enough of
> trying to educate someone who has a closed mind and who's obviously
> borderline 'special needs'.
>
>
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