What hæppened to it regarding the English language? Was it the

The french, the germans, the latins.

English would have been better without these shitty languages influencing us.

>>3078494
English has practically zero German influence though?

>>3078500
Totally wrong though?

>>3078494
>German influence

>>3078602
>>3078494
It's a germanic language you retards

>>3078567
I can think of a few German loanwords, mostly relating to linguistics:
Sprachbund
Umlaut
Ablaut
Urheimat
Schadenfreude

"Loanword" is a calque from German "Lehnwort".

>>3078478
Simplification of spelling.
Nobody's stopping you from writing mediæval or comœdy.

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>have a linguistics thread
>all these retarded ideas within 7 posts

>>3080491
First time? This is our famous high level of discourse

>>3080502
Sometimes I wonder with what authority do we bash reddit

>>3080511
>only sometimes

>>3080511
By the authority of "it pisses them off and leads to all sorts of lulz and drama."

>>3078478
Basically the Normans got rid of it, which was really stupid because English never really lost the /æ/ sound.

>>3078500
>>3078567
>>3078602
>>3079796
>>3080235
There is a difference between "Germanic" (English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian) and "German". English has relatively little direct influence from German, but it's descended from similar West Germanic languages with significant North Germanic influence. Then of course the Normans screwed up everything.

>>3078478
tfw my language still uses æ

>>3079796
English already being its own branch of the Germanic languages is not influence from the German language you fucking dipshit.

>>3080549
>Basically the Normans got rid of it, which was really stupid because English never really lost the /æ/ sound.
What is it with people on /his/ always posting misinformation? Cant you people do just a little bit of research before you post?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English#Until_Middle_English

English lost /æ/ by the Middle English period and only regained it in the 17th century.

>>3080551
Being danish isn't a thing to be proud of, Sören-Mikkel

>>3080551
What are you, Danish? Norwegian?

>>3080566
>æː/ (from Old English /æː, æɑ/) and /ɑː/ became /ɛː/ and /ɔː/, respectively.
>/æ/ (from Old English /æ, æ̆ɑ̆/) and /ɑ/ merged into /a/.

Looks like I dropped the ball. Sorry about that.

>>3080511
Well Gaia and 9gag are played out, we need to drive reddit into the ground and then find a new normalfag site to target

>>3080573
norwegian

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>>3078478
whæt æbout þis badboy?

>>3080893
The Normans got rid of it because they were autistic, but Icelandic still uses it. Faroese might too.

>>3078478
The biggest reason why letters such as æ, þ and others vanished was because of the printing press.
The latin letters were already present and it would have cost more to commision extra letters.
Thus english slowly started to phase out these letters and using alternative spellings of words.

>>3081316
Other languages adopted countless accent marks and whatnot, I'm not finding this very convincing.

I've heard that Dutch is a middle ground between English and German. Is this true?

>>3081327
Both Dutch and the Northern German dialects, yes. I've never formally studied Dutch, but since I've studied some German and English is my mother tongue, Dutch is fairly easy to read and understand.

>>3080570
Nynorsk is the one written standard that uses æ and is not Danish or Danish-based.

>>3081404
Nynorsk is just norwegian larping as Icelandic

>>3080893
how did you get that wrong you fucking imbecile

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>>3081327
>I've heard that Dutch is a middle ground between English and German. Is this true?

It kind of was, like 500 years ago.

Just listen to Chaucer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ybnLRf3gU

>>3081468
>Nynorsk is just norwegian larping as Icelandic

No it's not? Nynorsk isn't even remotely close to Icelandic.

>>3081544
It's trying to go back to it's roots before danish influenced norwegian, but it fails at it.
Just learn Icelandic, the supreme unaltered nordic language.

>>3081560
>he thinks Icelandic isn't unaltered

lel

>>3078567
But he's not though?

>>3081566
Icelandic is the least influenced of the nordic languages, and while not completely unaltered is the closest thing to old nordic.
if you find old nordic writing chances are an Icelander will understand 100% of it while all scandifags will have trouble understanding it.

>>3081566
Also that was a double negative making your statement:
>he thinks icelandic is altered

>>3081594
That is of course true, but it's not an unaltered language. They have had several spelling reforms, and it does have both grammatical and phonological differences from Old Norse.

Icelandic is it's own language; it is not Old Norse, even though it is the most similar.

The differences between Icelandic and Old Norse is actually quite similar to the differences between Modern and Ancient Greek.

>>3081607
I thought it was clear i was being hyperbolic

>>3081529
p. dope, a lot bouncier

>>3078494
>Implying one language can be "better" than the other.

>>3081819
>Implying all languages are equal
Listen to danish and then tell me that

>>3081468
Nynorsk is Norwegian with Norwegian characteristics.
Bokmaal is Danish with Norwegian characteristics.

>>3080235
The entire language is fucking German with French loan words like Williams namesake instead of Germans Oberon which means literally to get on top of.

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>>3078478
>Was it the fucking french who did it?

According to Anglos it is our fault