Comment from metafilter that I find very funny. Yeah, English is pretty much what happens when German and French get together and have a baby who cant spell. And then theyre always like, why cant you be more like your nice cousin Dutch, and English says, you two are never proud of me, Im the official language of more then 60 sovereign states and one of the most commonly spoken second languages in the world, Dutch is spoken in, what, the Netherlands and parts of Belgium and Suriname? And then French says, dont you brag to me about being a lingua franca, young lady, they named the term lingua franca after me, and English is like, Im not a lady, for the last time, Ive dropped grammatical gender, and German says, not in my language family you havent, I know you have modern ideas but there are rules. To hell with your rules, English says, what did they ever get me but weak and strong conjugation classes, and French interrupts and says well maybe youd have a more coherent grammatical system if you werent whoring around with every language that flutters its eyelashes at you, dont think I dont know what youve been doing with Spanish lately. And English says, oh, because youre such a pure language? Thats rich. And German says, dont you talk about your parent language that way, but English keeps going, English goes one step too far and says, French wouldnt even be around if Latin hadnt taken Gallic and -- Whack! German slaps English across the face! French is crying and cant stop, and English storms off yelling, and German wants to console French but doesnt know how, theyve always been just across a border but worlds apart, back in the Old Franconian days they seemed to have so much in common, but French has changed so much and German cant speak the language of Romance ... Im sorry, what were we talking about? posted by kyrademon at 5:28 AM on December 17
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:05:29 +0000
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