Yep. We’re 50 countries in a trench coat. We have about a dozen dialects, many occasionally incomprehensible to others. My favorite example of this is “finnabouttabe.”
The English language itself is like nine languages in a trench coat. It’s mainly German/Dutch & French, with some sprinkling of Latin and various other romantic languages.
That one was always weird to me as a native German speaker. Dutch has very prominent sounds (mostly the G) that aren’t really present in standard German or English that remind me much more of sore throat or coughing than being drunk.
The brits no longer get to claim the English language.
Neither do the yanks!
Yep. We’re 50 countries in a trench coat. We have about a dozen dialects, many occasionally incomprehensible to others. My favorite example of this is “finnabouttabe.”
The English language itself is like nine languages in a trench coat. It’s mainly German/Dutch & French, with some sprinkling of Latin and various other romantic languages.
And most Brits are not chavs or MadLads, yet this post exists.
as the only ones capable of proper English, the English language is passed on to the Dutch.
The might as well take English. They just sound drunk when they speak their own language.
(To Germans…apparently)
That one was always weird to me as a native German speaker. Dutch has very prominent sounds (mostly the G) that aren’t really present in standard German or English that remind me much more of sore throat or coughing than being drunk.
Spaghetti is an Italian word, so it’s fine!