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Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry by jjtheblunt on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:10PM (#34989652)
My Germanic Linguistics grad school prof told us once, to your point, if you count etymologies of words in spoken English and in the English dictionary, you'd get roughly the following: spoken English uses roughly 80% Germanic vocabulary, but the English dictionary is roughly 80% Latin and Greek words (anglicized).
Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry by WalterBright on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:20PM (#34989753)
I've heard it put more crassly as "barbarian grammar with french nouns"
Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry by jjtheblunt on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:40PM (#34989958)
That's great.
Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry by codebje on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:01PM (#34990133)
The only thing that got hacked to pieces more than the English peasantry during the middle ages was the English language.