What would the English language be like if the Norman conquest

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>>1651214
http://anglish.wikia.com/wiki/Main_leaf

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>>1651219

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>>1651234
>normies get ooooout of my green pleasant laaaand
>smug wojak william completely decimates all the pepo-saxon soldiers
>the normies never got out

Pay close attention to this history, as it's happening right now to our boards.

Especially /pol/, that was lost to the normie hordes ever since it got attention from the outsiders of our 4chan citadel.

I dont know, maybe more boring? I like english because you have a lot of synonyms and you can pick between french and english words.

>>1651252
true, but there's just something fucking a e s t h e t i c about pure Germanic Anglo-Saxon. It sounds so smooth yet powerful, like Norse but richer and less harsh for a greener and more fertile land.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC_1xbwLcA0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfaEGU45lKA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVyXDYp60BE

>>1651252
I do agree that it makes English incredibly versatile. It also gives the possibility of choosing similar words with different connotations, e.g. 'fighter' vs. 'combatant'. It does make it confusing, however, when, say, 'equestrian' is not visibly relates to 'horse' or 'steed'.

>>1651214
more like dutch

>>1651219
That's just modern english without non germanic words, not really a good representation of how english would be had french never influenced it.

>>1651935
The French influence is mostly limited to vocabulary though. I think the deepest influence is the introduction of a phonemic /v/, which had previously just been an intervocalic allophone of /f/.