I'm just a butt who loves linguistics and hates the imgur circlejerk. But the puppies, man... the puppies... Deaf person who works on African languages and signed languages. I will insert my verysmart ass into these matters. Also did I mention PUPPIES.
Oh my god, shut the fuck up.
It's called a brain, but it seems you don't have one.
FIXME.CH
But you are trying to imply it is also something else (Romance). It is not. It is 100% Germanic still. Lexical borrowings don't change that.
That is a bad parts to whole argument. The language is Germanic. Having Romance roots in vocabulary does not make it not Germanic now.
The way we measure it: pretty much just 'it is X or Y' rather than percentages. English is a descent of Proto-Germanic. It is 100% Germanic.
Also, at its core vocabulary, the lexicon is very Germanic. So out of the most common words, not many are Romance.
Vocabulary has nothing to do with the grammar or structure of a language.
No. No we did not. It is a 100% Germanic language. We did not tack anything onto it.
Not really. Language teaching and learning does not have to be prescriptive. It can also be descriptive in nature (eg, 'real speech').
Yes, but any grammar book will be filled with a number of prescriptive rules rather than true conversational [language].
If you speak English that way, I don't know how you got into college.
The 'rule' does not apply to sentences either.
GUYS, IT'S OKAY. Apparently WisdomPlaytime has figured out how language works and knows what is right vs wrong. It's cool.
Grammar books are not reputable by their very nature. You don't dictate how language works; you aim to describe how speakers use it.
No. That is not how English grammar came to be. Grammatically, it is still very Germanic.
That is such a stupid argument. You should feel bad. Leave the internet and never come back.
Are you kidding? Stop acting like you are better for using this website.
Yeah, because things are just SO different now, kids basically don't have imaginations or know what fun is. You are the last true generation
Fun fact: [citation needed]
This is imgur, where the circlejerk is so strong, it makes up 99% of the website.
My computer can't open McBain files and nothing is showing up on Google on how to open it :(
No, but man, he lost it. Do you even know.
Fair enough.
Weird. I have never seen this. Something to google.
What is it spanning across?
This was totally a real thing that happened. Props to everyone!
"probably"
Raw? Do you mean rare?
HAHAHAHAHA. And now you're just wanking to the fact that you can downvote my replies while not replying yourself because you are wrong.