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I'm sorry but this is lazy. I missed the quotes, as in 'Germanic', denoting exactly the thing that you said- it's a multitude of languages and dialects and ursprungs or herkünfte. Once you understand a lot of languages, a lot of languages become quite understandable.
English, hahaha, I'm sorry to offend your nationalistic sensibilities, but this is the Bayeux Tapestry: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bayeux_Tapestry
You know, of course the story, as the Normans, who would become the ruling dynasty thenceforth until present day, were Norsemen right? Not "Norwegian" (although actual Norwegians too, this was of course before nationstates were a thing)(thing, by the way, is Old Norse for, well, "Thing". It is what they would call a Råd, or Råth, or in German "Rat", perhaps in France it would be 'le tribunal' or something gay like that- a public and intermittently recurring assembly before which one would lay various legal matters, in to what amounted to jurisprudence at the time in circa AD 800 (although in fact ridiculously much older but I digress) like who stole whom's cow or who raped and pillaged whom's village et cetera), but Norsemen, or Nordmen, or Northmen, or plain and simple "Vikings", were the de facto rulers of the land at the time, not whatever the French were, apart from being murdered a lot by pillage massacres.
The Føroyar islands north of England (well technically the UK/Scotland but whatever)(technically technically an autonomous and self-governing entity under the control of the state of Denmark, I felt like you would have mnjehhed that one if I didn't explain it) have spoken their version of Old Norse mixed with local dialects and natural, organic evolution of whatever Celtic remnants remained from pre-glacial times. I can read that out of the box, because it is so ridiculously similar to modern Scandinavian languages. But this has derailed to the point I don't know what I am schooling you on anymore.
By who? This is very much my 100% own opinion on the matter, I assure you. Fuck arts teachers, art is useless.
Nice, but I'm more a Chomsky kind of guy. I was going to get into Derrida, but I will NOT deal with another headache right now.
Well, in the realm of real life, you're completely stupid!
If I change the course of a stream because I want it to flow in another direction, will it flow in the same direction if I simply just threw rocks at it?
And I will have you know that the extent to which I speak a bastardized form of language then that is because I am a bastard, coming from a long and illustrious line of bastards. Hey that's a French word! But of course they would invent that, you really need words for things you see everyday.
Antiscientific logic! 😘🤏
So you think that whatever things sound like, that's what they mean? Words are all a guesswork that starts anew every time we speak to one another? I would presume some more structure to language than that.
Also consider this:
"BARBARBARBARBARBARBARBARBARBARBARBARBARBARBARBAR".
Surely you understand what I mean by that? It's only natural evolution of language.
I would love to debate you on this, but I'm literally (literally literally) in the process of composing my book on this subject, which I did out of a need to be able to point to it as a source of reference, because it takes too long explaining my position every time it comes up, and the time I would spend on discussing it with you would take time away from that effort, not that that is how I would spend that time, because that time is better spent on hookers and cocaine, and constitutes a thoroughly self-defeating proposition.
I mean all of the above tongue in cheek and with good sportsmanship just fighting you with words, no harm meant, nothing personal, you loveable French bastard. :) <3