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This exact line is slowly becoming more and more common (media.scored.co)
posted 5 days ago by GoldenInnosStatue on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +113Score on mirror )
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AngeredKabar on scored.co
4 days ago 7 points (+0 / -0 / +7Score on mirror ) 1 child
German isn't even that bad to learn. It was kinda fun to see where a bunch of weird one off terms from English come from.

Like gang plank. It's a passageway off a ship. Gang means passageway.

Brand is related to fire and it makes sense one would 'brand' their cattle and from that came to mean a mark of distinction for marketing purposes.
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supercellex3d on scored.co
4 days ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
Not just one-offs, the entire fucking language. If you compare old English to Frisian, (sometimes) Danish, or Dutch, you can pretty quickly peace together how we figured out where English people came from (The Angles, a part of low lying land in Northern Germany up to the Netherlands and Denmark.)

Even the French origin words are heavily germanicized (And French is pretty celticized for a romance language!), meaning that British people are what happens when a Dane and a Gaul have a kid
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TakenusernameA on scored.co
4 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
English is just German miscegenated with Latin.
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