Well, at least some devs use their twitter for the right

wow that's an epic and random observation you made, Sawyer.

>Eichhörnchen
>Eich
Huh, never thought about that.

>>376812089
CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN

Oakrrels just sounds silly.

>Ek
>Ekorre
He's not wrong.

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>>376812170
This just makes me question what the fuck an "orre" is supposed to be.

>>376811993
And apparently that's because squirrel is derived from latin via old french.

English is the least germanic of the germanic languages. Interestingly enough there have been attempts to "purify" it of its non-germanic aspect; look up anglish, it's pretty funny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_English

>>376812342
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_English

>A noted advocate of English linguistic purism was 19th-century English writer, poet, minister, and philologist William Barnes, who sought to make scholarly English easier to understand without a classical education. Barnes lamented the "needless inbringing" of foreign words; instead using native words from his own dialect and coining new ones based on Old English roots. These included speechcraft for grammar, birdlore for ornithology, fore-elders for ancestors and bendsome for flexible.

Was it autism

>>376813019
isn't english the most dynamic language because it invents/steals the most new words?

>>376813235
Effectively yes, but I honestly think it's a damn shame that so many great Anglo-Saxon words have faded out of existence in the past 1,000 years.

>>376813019
Sounds like one of those made up languages that are spoken in post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie/games.

>>376812170
>>376811993
well I'll be damned

After reading up on some more the "ek" part doesn't necessarily refer to the tree though.

>>376812227
orre is a kind of bird, but apparently that is not where the etymology of ekorre comes from.

apparently it's
ekorre > ikorne > > aikwernô
same roots as the german


Some other dialects call it granoxe (firtree ox), gråskinn, kurre, furufnatt och fnatt

>>376813019
>speechcraft
>birdlore
>bendsome
I love it

>le english is germanic meme

This shit needs to end. I don't know why linguists are autistic over English's classification. It started out germanic, but it's definitely roman now. Most of modern English came from french.

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>>376811993

>>376812342
>>376813019
>anglish
http://anglish.wikia.com/wiki/Starcraft
http://anglish.wikia.com/wiki/Starmoot
http://anglish.wikia.com/wiki/Telcraft

>>376813913
Well the fact that it started out Germanic is why it's Germanic. You don't change language families just because you have a lot of foreign loanwords. And English still has a lot of Germanic words even with the amount of French, Latin, and Greek influence.

>>376813019
> self-moving rollingham

>>376814404
>mfw yanks call

>tfw when you're a game dev with no twitter
feels comfy

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>>376813913
>This shit needs to end.

English functions perfectly fine without all its loan words from french and other latin languages. It can't function without its germanic words. It sits firmly in the germanic camp.