France to ban the term "e-mail"?

[Neeyik]

Well, english is roughly 40% french, 40% germanic, and 20% celtic...

How quickly the Roman's are forgotten.

Well Latin figures into the French, but German isn't a Romance language.

Yeah, and the Celt's were originally French anyway . Don't forget that Norse also has a big influence on the "English" too, particularly with nouns.

 

[epicstruggle]

I also took latin in HS. and believe that it had the most impact on our language. I could be wrong but doubt it.

later,

 

[pax]

I thought it the other way around. The Celts were there before the Germanic Franks took over... I suppose we could say the French are a mix of the 2 and if not more including Latin and bits of other germanic tribes...

 

[Moffell]

Anyway it seems people are overly sensitive regarding anything that mentions the F-word in any situation.

that word has its roots in german.

Given the context I was hoping people would interpret my use of the "F-word" as a substitute for... French... *Sigh* Those late night jokes never do really pan out do they.

 

[Legion]

Anyway it seems people are overly sensitive regarding anything that mentions the F-word in any situation.

that word has its roots in german.

Given the context I was hoping people would interpret my use of the "F-word" as a substitute for... French... *Sigh* Those late night jokes never do really pan out do they.

lol the same may be true even for that variation of the "F" word .

such a dirty word that "F" word.

 

[zurich]

Well Latin has next to no influence on German, and anyone who has studied/speaks German and English know the two are joined at the hip (for nouns, verbs, grammar is a much different story).

I took 4 years of Latin, and while it is pretty apparent in English, most of that comes from French (which, like Spanish and Italian), are much 'truer' Romance languages.

 

[Legion]

Well Latin has next to no influence on German, and anyone who has studied/speaks German and English know the two are joined at the hip (for nouns, verbs, grammar is a much different story).

I took 4 years of Latin, and while it is pretty apparent in English, most of that comes from French (which, like Spanish and Italian), are much 'truer' Romance languages.

No kidding. Germanic influence in english is undeniable.

 

[DeanoC]

English is based on Anglo-saxon, an ancient Germanic language, actually closer to a dialect of Dutch than modern German.

Some words were borrowed from the displaced Celts (actually 2 different languges, Gaelic (Scotch and Irish) and Briton/Welsh) and the old Roman empire.

Then some Danish (Due to DaneLaw, Viking conquests) and some Hebrew (Jewish immigrants have been a vital economic influence on England for centuries)

Then some French (from the Normans)

Then as England become the great trade empire it picked up words from all over the place (Hindi and American Indians have added alot of words).

Just about every language added something. English is truely a 'world' language.

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/loanwords.html

Try saying a sentence without a least one of those 'loanwords'

 

[DeanoC]

English is based on Anglo-saxon, an ancient Germanic language, actually closer to a dialect of Dutch than modern German.

Some words were borrowed from the displaced Celts (actually 2 different languges, Gaelic (Scotch and Irish) and Briton/Welsh) and the old Roman empire.

Then some Danish (Due to DaneLaw, Viking conquests) and some Hebrew (Jewish immigrants have been a vital economic influence on England for centuries)

Then some French (from the Normans)

Then as England become the great trade empire it picked up words from all over the place (Hindi and American Indians have added alot of words).

Just about every language added something. English is truely a 'world' language.

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/loanwords.html

Try saying a sentence without a least one of those 'loanwords'

 

[Legion]

its fairly obvious the french have contributed to the english language of law as well.

I suppse i can now blame both the English and French for law dramas.

DeanoC i would think the Jewish migrants more than likely contributed more in the form of Yiddish than hewbrew.

 

[DeanoC]

its fairly obvious the french have contributed to the english language of law as well.

I suppse i can now blame both the English and French for law dramas.

DeanoC i would think the Jewish migrants more than likely contributed more in the form of Yiddish than hewbrew.

Yes Yiddish was generally how we got them but some of the words were from Hebrew (Yiddish is a relatively modern language 8th century? A germanic language, it loaned many words itself from Hebrew). Also many religious words came direct, as the early Bible scholars often used Hebrew bibles.
When the bible was translated some words were left alone (generally as the word had no direct translation), from this you get Amen, Sabbeth, Messiah, etc. Of course it should be noted that the English use of Hebrew words was from the written form (as nobody spoke it for a long time), and as such probably sounds nothing like the original forms of it.

English common law existed before the Normans but began to be written down in that period, for that they borrowed Romance language words (latin/french its often hard)

 

[Legion]

well sabbath is pronounced Shabbat in hewbrew and Messiah is pronounced Meshiac.

 

[V3]

Tomigochi

What is this ?

 

[RussSchultz]

Stupid little virtual pets. All the rave about 5 years ago. now old and busted.

 

[Xmas]

Given the context I was hoping people would interpret my use of the "F-word" as a substitute for... French... *Sigh* Those late night jokes never do really pan out do they.

lol the same may be true even for that variation of the "F" word .

such a dirty word that "F" word.

Hm, that other F-word has its roots in Latin.

Well Latin has next to no influence on German,

Latin influences on today's German are clearly visible. But one should not forget that most european languages have a common indo-european root.

 

[V3]

Stupid little virtual pets. All the rave about 5 years ago. now old and busted.

Ahh Tamagochi, now the rave is about Choco-Egg.

 

[Sabastian]

Well considering that EMAIL is purely a capitalistic American creation I would have to conclude that the French have become a little .... insecure about their language and culture. So much for the idea of the French being a "tolerant" people.

 

[Tim Murray]

Well considering that EMAIL is purely a capitalistic American creation I would have to conclude that the French have become a little .... insecure about their language and culture. So much for the idea of the French being a "tolerant" people.

*cough Freedom Fries cough*

France strikes back.

 

[Simon F]

Well considering that EMAIL is purely a capitalistic.

Actually, EMAIL is a brand of electrical goods ("Email Limited is a diversified manufacturing and distribution company operating primarily in Australia and New Zealand") in Australia and has been a round a lot longer than electronic mail. Technically, I suppose the company should (or even may ) have fought the introduction of the email term as it would infringe on their trademark.

 

[Sabastian]

Well considering that EMAIL is purely a capitalistic.

Actually, EMAIL is a brand of electrical goods ("Email Limited is a diversified manufacturing and distribution company operating primarily in Australia and New Zealand") in Australia and has been a round a lot longer than electronic mail. Technically, I suppose the company should (or even may ) have fought the introduction of the email term as it would infringe on their trademark.

Who invented the internet? The USA did, along with electronic mail.