Re: Le Timbre

ADPUF <flyhunter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

10:01, giovedì 20 marzo 2008, J. J. Lodder:
ADPUF <flyhunter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks to Guillaume le Conquerant, English is not Deutsch,
and that's good for an Italian like me.

Can you invent any reason at all
why English would have been like German
without the good William's intervention?
Not even Dutch (which is much closer geographically)
or Danish or Swedish is much like German.


English IS not Deutsch and Guillaume DID conquer Angleterre.

Nobody knows "what if".


I was thinking to the lexical richness of English, which has
included so many (old)French words and so is more intelligible
than German to all speakers of a Romance (neo-Latin) language.

F.ex. Freedom and Liberty in English, Freiheit in German,
libertà, liberté, libertad in Italian, French, Spanish.


OTOH, thanks to the great Julius
Italian and French are so very much alike
that we automatically learn both languages at one go,
don't you think?


Hmm, French is (almost) all Greek to me.
:-)

I thought that to your ears Italian sounds more similar to
Spanish.

No, Italian is in a class by itself,
and much easier to catch the sound of
than either Spanish or French.
(which doesn't imply understanding of course)

Jan
.

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