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Re:All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running... by ekianjo on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @06:30PM (#15709044)
English has been widely influenced by French after William the Conquerer and the Normands rule over England for almost 4 centuries.

Take a look at Beowulf and good luck trying to understand the original germanic version of English. You won't.

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Re:All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running... by rootbear on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:40AM (#15713512)
There is a whole branch of the conlang (constructed language) community that is interested in what English would be like if it hadn't been manhandled by Norman French. Science Fiction writer Poul Anderson wrote an essay in which he tried to use as few non-Anglo-Saxon words as possible, using calques from German where necessary. The result is sometimes said to be in "Anders-Saxon". The essay[1] is fun to read and has a Wikipedia page [2]. A friend said it was like reading one of the Norse sagas.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.language...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

Sorry if this is way too much topic drift from Supercomputers!

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