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Chud ID:EkM7u2PX Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:11:16 No.4148158

Quoted By: >>4148173

Alright let's settle this debate Is English an Indo European language or a latin language adopted from the Romans? Or is it a mix of both ?

Chud ID:n6UhNaiM Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:13:11 No.4148165

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I mean compared to other indo European languages (like German for example) we don't even have the same sentencing structure and it collides better with latin that's where my confusion comes from

We should rape Salt to death !!jfCu5tRrBw ID:gSiPj10t Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:13:33 No.4148166

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Both. English is the bastard child of basically every language that ended up in Europe for an extended period. Greek, Latin, Germanic tongues, the works.

Chud ID:whKSiVqm Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:13:36 No.4148168

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Quoted By: >>4148176

english is a germanic language you fucking retard

Colorjak Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:13:44 No.4148169 Report

Quoted By: >>4148171

SNCA

Chud ID:83RH9DBD Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:13:49 No.4148170

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probably the foremost

We should rape Salt to death !!jfCu5tRrBw ID:gSiPj10t Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:14:09 No.4148171

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>>4148169
Shit I care about

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Chud ID:CgKJ76xc Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:14:21 No.4148172

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>Alright let's settle this debate Is English an Indo European language or a latin language adopted from the Romans? Or is it a mix of both ?

Chud ID:zR3xWm4Y Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:14:23 No.4148173

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Quoted By: >>4148179

>>4148158
latin languages are indo-european stupid frog

Chud ID:n6UhNaiM Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:14:49 No.4148176

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Quoted By: >>4148182 >>4148184 >>4148188

>>4148168
Half of the English vocabulary is latin though

Chud ID:n6UhNaiM Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:15:17 No.4148179

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Quoted By: >>4148182 >>4148194

>>4148173
I meant Germanic sorry

We should rape Salt to death !!jfCu5tRrBw ID:gSiPj10t Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:16:24 No.4148182

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Quoted By: >>4148186 >>4148189

>>4148176
>>4148179
The actual answer is that it's a mix, it takes a lot from Germanic and Latin, with a bit of Greek and other shit mixed in for the hell of it.

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Chud ID:!I0Av35I Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:16:56 No.4148184

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>>4148176
He did this

Chud ID:n6UhNaiM Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:17:42 No.4148186

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Quoted By: >>4148189

>>4148182
I guess that would make sense but what would that categorize English in is it more Germanic or latin ?

Chud ID:whKSiVqm Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:18:00 No.4148188

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Quoted By: >>4148193

>>4148176
it dosent matter, the core foundations of english originate from west germanic linguistics. its why german and english sound very similar

Chud ID:zR3xWm4Y Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:18:11 No.4148189

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Quoted By: >>4148193 >>4148198

>>4148182
>>4148186
having a bunch of loanwords doesn't change the family the language belongs to
it's still structurally a germanic language

Chud ID:whKSiVqm Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:19:10 No.4148190

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Quoted By: >>4148196

its like if i make a cake and put strawberries on it and then you asked is it more cake or strawberry

Chud ID:YNMjXbEN Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:20:07 No.4148192

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Quoted By: >>4148194

Latin is an Indo European language you Kraut caveman

Chud ID:n6UhNaiM Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:20:18 No.4148193

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Quoted By: >>4148227

>>4148188
No it's not we don't even have the same sentence structure
>>4148189
I guess that would make sense but we have to acknowledge the latin influence in the English language too

Chud ID:n6UhNaiM Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:20:31 No.4148194

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>>4148192
>>4148179

Chud ID:n6UhNaiM Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:21:01 No.4148196

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>>4148190
In this case strawberries would make 60% of the cake

We should rape Salt to death !!jfCu5tRrBw ID:gSiPj10t Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:21:45 No.4148198

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>>4148189
Ehhh, there are still a bunch of structural aspects that it took from Latin and Greek like pluralizations. It trips up both native speakers of germanic and romance languages so I hesitate to call it solely one or the other. The latin is too entrenched to just write it off.

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Chud ID:xAH14gi8 Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:27:56 No.4148210

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Quoted By: >>4148221

Its hegelian dialectics
Thesis-indo european
Antithesis-latin

Chud ID:Al9s4w60 Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:28:05 No.4148212

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Quoted By: >>4148221

Youre part greek?
Unholy mutt whats your actual makeup

Chud ID:n6UhNaiM Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:30:17 No.4148221

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Quoted By: >>4148229

>>4148210
I don't think thats how languages work lol
>>4148212
What?

Chud ID:whKSiVqm Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:31:43 No.4148227

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Quoted By: >>4148250

>>4148193
germanic languages have two main tenses, past and present. latin has like five or six tenses, the difference is that in english we use branching verbs like "i WILL do something" or
"i HAVE done something" which is the same as in german. on the contrary latin languages tend to just use one word to describe these things. germanic languages require strict word order whilst latin languages it dosent really matter as long as the end has the correct tense. for example
>i write
>i am writing
>i was writing
english
>scrib
>scribo
>scribeam
latin

Chud ID:xAH14gi8 Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:32:18 No.4148229

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Quoted By: >>4148250

>>4148221
Its a mix

Chud ID:n6UhNaiM Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:36:47 No.4148250

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Quoted By: >>4148258

>>4148227
Ohh alright I understand this part about verbs but what about sentence structuring? It's not the same in German
>>4148229
What do we call this mix ?

Chud ID:whKSiVqm Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:38:46 No.4148258

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Quoted By: >>4148272

>>4148250
thats because german is a different language. english has a germanic origin that dosent mean everything they do is exactly the same, as you already know that english borrows a lot from other languages like latin and french which changes it drastically but the foundation is germanic

Chud ID:n6UhNaiM Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:41:56 No.4148272

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>>4148258
Oh alright thanks I always wondered about this now I know

Colorjak Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:43:30 No.4148277 Report

Quoted By: >>4148292

English is a Germanic language that got raped by the French and as a result, its speaking and pronunciation is a complete mess.

Chud ID:n6UhNaiM Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:46:10 No.4148292

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Quoted By: >>4148323

>>4148277
Yeah we already came to this conclusion but thanks for the input anyway

Colorjak Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:57:29 No.4148323 Report

Quoted By: >>4148325 >>4148334

>>4148292
In fact, the French influence got so bad that English speakers will pronounced any foreign word with a "zh" sound when the original word doesn't have that pronunciation.
Azerbaijan > "Azure bye zhahn"
Xi Jinping > "Zhee zhingping"
Parmesan > "ParmeZHAWN"
Beijing > "Bei zhing"
Another example is, they pronounce the Spanish "machete" as "muh SHetee" or Che Guevara as "Shay Gwuverrah" even though the ch in spanish is pronounced exactly the same as in most english words.
All because they still have PTSD from the French.

Colorjak Mon 05 Oct 2026 09:57:48 No.4148325 Report

>>4148323
*will pronounce

Chud ID:n6UhNaiM Mon 05 Oct 2026 10:01:05 No.4148334

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>>4148323
Dang I didn't know french folks had aura like that

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