Pay-Foreplay <Pay-Foreplay@wt.com> wrote:
>English, we all take it for granted but it is an amazing and complex
>story.WE took the best of every invaders language and incorporated it
>into our everyday speech. Even The Battle of Hastings only added many
>French words (mostly food) but never became popular with the
>Anglo-Saxons working folk. Just the Norman aristocracy, and within 50
>years they became "English Speakers" too.
>
>Why has English become the worldwide common language for business,
>science, even classic literature ? it's ability to embrace wonderful
>new exotic foreign words without changing it's primary
>Celtic-Anglo-Saxon grammatical roots it's totally unique as far as I
>know.
I like how he didn't just dryly go thru the details, he made interesting
stories.
I especially liked how he'd take several words with the same root and make
synopsis.
Enjoy, Freddie
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