English borrowed more than 30k words from latin/greek based languages such as French, Italian and Spanish.
English borrowed more than 30k words from latin/greek based languages such as French, Italian and Spanish.
What I got from the video is that it's a Germanic language in its structure, and imported a lot of vocabulary from romance languages. The part in which he compared journalistic text with coloquial text is interesting, the latter had mainly old English roots.
@aou @gnexus What I got from the video is that it's a Germanic language in its structure, and imported a lot of vocabulary from romance languages. The part in which he compared journalistic text with coloquial text is interesting, the latter had mainly old English roots.
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