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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.74,0:00:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello everyone.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.68,0:00:03.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome to the Langfocus channel,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.25,0:00:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my name is Paul.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.30,0:00:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, I’m going to answer the question
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.50,0:00:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Is English really a Germanic language?”.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.10,0:00:11.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you’ve seen any of my videos on Germanic languages,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.57,0:00:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like my Afrikaans video, like my Dutch video, like my German video,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.27,0:00:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or like my North Germanic languages video,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.44,0:00:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you probably saw that English is also a Germanic language.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.96,0:00:23.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a lot people write comments expressing\Nsome confusion over this:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.88,0:00:26.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they write things like “Paul, are you sure\Nit’s a Germanic language?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.75,0:00:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you sure it’s not a Romance language?”.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.54,0:00:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that’s a good question.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.60,0:00:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If a native English speaker who had never learned\Nanother language before had a look at a page of French
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.22,0:00:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then had a look at\Na page of German or Dutch,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.48,0:00:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would probably be able to understand\Nmore of the page of French.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.64,0:00:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, if they had a look at a page of Spanish\Nor a page of Italian,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.43,0:00:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would probably be able to pick out a lot of words\Nthat they recognize.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.18,0:00:48.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, on the other hand, if they looked at\Na page of Dutch or German,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.38,0:00:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they probably wouldn’t be able to pick out\Nas many
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.37,0:00:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without deciphering the words a little bit first.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.21,0:00:55.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in that case, why is English a Germanic language\Nand not a Romance language?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the field of linguistics, languages are categorized\Naccording to their genetic relationship.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genetic relationship means that they have a common ancestor,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore, they have some common features\Nthat distinguish them from other groups of languages.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This type of genetic relationship between languages can commonly\Nbe seen in the grammar and syntax of the language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, the current vocabulary of the language is not really\Ntaken into account in its categorization.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even when a language has a huge number of loan words\Nand its vocabulary changes a lot,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that does not change the categorization of that language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, because English developed from Proto-Germanic,\Nit is a Germanic language,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite massive changes that have taken place\Nin its vocabulary.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The vocabulary of English has been highly influenced\Nby Romance languages-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Romance meaning Latin and any language\Nthat has developed from Latin,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like French, Spanish, Italian, etc.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, how much has it been influenced?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, English vocabulary is 26% Germanic,\Nand it’s 29% French
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--wait, you’re telling me that there’s more French vocabulary\Nthan Germanic vocabulary,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though it’s a Germanic language?!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s odd.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, but wait, there’s also 29% Latin vocabulary.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, that means, together, 58% of English vocabulary\Ncomes from Romance languages?!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wow, that’s more than I thought!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another 6% comes from Greek,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another 4% comes from other languages,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and 4% comes from proper names,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can’t really think of any vocabulary\Nthat comes from proper names,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aside from...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“randy”…
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if we ignore the origins of English\Nand its grammar and syntax
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just focus on the vocabulary for a minute,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then English is largely a Romance language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did so much Romance vocabulary enter English?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Much of the French vocabulary entered English\Nafter the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Normans spoke a regional French dialect\Ncalled “Old Norman” or “Norman French”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The upper classes in England spoke French\Nfor around 300 years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,English was influenced by the Norman French dialect,\Nbut also by Parisian French
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,due to its prestige and cultural influence\Nin the following centuries.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Huge amounts of French vocabulary entered English,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it lost much of its Old English vocabulary.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in many cases, there are pairs of equivalent\NGermanic and French vocabulary.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But within those pairs, there’s often a slightly different meaning\Nor usage for the Germanic word and for the French word.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An interesting example are the pairs of words representing animals,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vs. foods that come from those animals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The animals are represented by Germanic words,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the foods are represented by French loanwords.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, “cow” comes from Old English “cū”,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but “beef” comes from French “boeuf”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Pig” comes from Old English “picga”,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but “pork” comes from French “porc”,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I don’t know what the pronunciation would’ve been\Nlike in Norman French.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Sheep” comes from Old English “sceap”,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but “mutton” comes from Old French “mouton”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Snail” comes from Old English “snægl”,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and “escargot” comes from Norman French “escargot”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,French also influenced English\Nbecause of its huge cultural influence on Europe
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the Renaissance period to the end of the 19th century,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even now to some extent.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it’s not just French,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there’s also a lot of Latin vocabulary.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some Latin entered Germanic dialects\Nin their early days,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through contact with the Roman empire.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On top of that, some Christian missionaries were present\Nin Britain in the 6th and 7th centuries,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they introduced some Latin religious vocab into English.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many Latin words were also borrowed\Nduring the Renaissance period,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also during the scientific revolution\Nof the 17th and 18th centuries,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when many new words were “coined”,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“coined” meaning “newly created”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New words were coined from Latin roots, prefixes,\Nand suffixes to represent new concepts in science,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in technology, and in industry.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, English is a Germanic language which absorbed a huge number\Nof French and Latin words?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, basically, but some people have a different theory:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some people think that English is actually a creole language;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there’s something called\N“The Middle English Creole Hypothesis”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are big differences between Old English\Nand Middle English;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of course there was the importing\Nof lots of French vocabulary,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that alone does not make it a creole language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, there were other changes to the grammar\Nof English which became highly simplified.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a lot of simplification,\Nlike the loss of most noun cases,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that--aside from the possessive form with ’s (apostrophe s)\Nand the plural form
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--most nouns in English don’t have any inflection.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also, adjectives used to have inflection,\Nbut that disappeared, too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Side note): The word “inflection” means:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“changes to a word to represent different\Ngrammatical categories”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, the word “cat”\Nand “the cat’s paw”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, the ’s (apostrophe s) is a kind of inflection\Nto show possession,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have 1 mouse, but 2 mice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here, the word is inflected to show plural.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let’s take a simple phrase like “The good king”\Nand look at it in Old English;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Old English, notice that all three words\Nin this phrase can change:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the nominative case “Se goda cyning”,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the accusative case "þone gōdan cyning”,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the genitive case “þæs gōdan cyninges”,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the dative case “þǣm gōdan cyning”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the definite article changes, the adjective changes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the noun changes depending on the case.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, the article and adjective also change\Ndepending on the gender,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the case endings are different\Ndepending on the gender.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s look at a similar phrase, “The good queen”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Seo gode cwén”,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“þā gōdan cwéne”,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“þǣre gōdan cwéne”,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“þǣre gōdan cwéne”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice the different feminine form of the definite article\Nand the adjective.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is just an example of the grammatical complexity\Nof Old English,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you can imagine how much it became simplified.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the Middle English period,\Nmost of these forms had disappeared or merged together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now, we just have a genitive case,\Nand the others form a common case.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the type of simplification\Nthat happens when Creoles arise,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it’s very possible that Old English\Nunderwent a process of creolization,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inserting lots of French vocabulary into an Old English substrate,\Nor underlying structure.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there might have been a different reason\Nfor that simplification of English;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some people don’t believe in the creole hypothesis,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they point to things like some of the irregular forms\Nthat still exist in English,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like irregular verbs or irregular plural forms.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a typical creole language,\Nthose forms would have been regularized.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, of course, creolization is not an all-or-nothing process;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s possible that English was partially creolized.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, let’s look at a couple of sentences in English,\Nand let’s look at the influences we can find,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and let’s see if there’s more Germanic\Nor more Romance influence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his one’s a newspaper headline:\N“Trump, pushing immigration plan,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meets with family of woman killed in 2007”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Push”: this word comes from Old French “poulser”,\Nor Modern French “pousser”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Immigration”: this word comes from Latin “immigratum”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Plan”: this word comes from the French word “plan”,\Nwhich means “map” or “ground plan”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Meet”: this comes from Old English “metan”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“With”: this comes from Old English “wið”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Family”: this comes from the Latin “familia”,\Naccording to the source I used,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there’s also the French word “famille”,\Nwhich I suppose could be the source.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Of”: this word comes from\Nthe Old English “æf”, or “of”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Woman”: this comes from\NOld English “wimman”, or “wiman”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Kill”: this might come from\Nthe Old English “cwellan”, “to quell”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“In”: this word comes from Latin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, out of those ten words, five are Germanic,\Nand five are Romance words.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But let’s have a look at a more casual sentence,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I have a feeling that newspaper vocabulary\Ntends toward Romance vocabulary more than common speech.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I had lunch with my friend and we read some books”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I”: this is Germanic, comes from Old English “iċ”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Had”: this is also Germanic,\Nit comes from Old English “habban”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Lunch”: the origin of this one is vague,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it seems to be from a Modern English dialect word.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“With”: this is from Old English “wið”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“My”: this is Germanic, it comes from\NMiddle English “mi”, or “min”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Friend”: this comes from Old English “freond”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“And”: this comes from Old English “and”, or “ond”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“We”: this comes from Old English “we”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Read”: this comes from Old English\N“rædan”, or “redan”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Some”: this comes from Old English “sum”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Book”: this comes from Old English “boc”.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this time, all of the words,\Nor almost all of the words, are Germanic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it’s interesting that the majority of English vocabulary\Ncomes from French or from Latin,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in the most commonly used words in casual speech,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there tends to be more Germanic vocabulary.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a good argument in favor of English being classified\Nas a Germanic language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, do I think that English should be classified\Nas a Germanic language?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, by a linguist’s criteria, yes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but most people don’t really care\Nabout a linguist’s criteria,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they just care about the practical application,\Nthe practical use of the language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in practice, I think the vocabulary\Nis a very important element of the language,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I think it’s fair to say that, in practice,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,English is a hybrid language:\Nit’s partly Germanic, part Romance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, that’s my personal conclusion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’d like to know what you think:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you think that English should be considered\Na Germanic language,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or do you think it seems\Nmore like a Romance language?
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