Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry
by jjtheblunt on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:10PM
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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).
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Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry
by WalterBright on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:20PM
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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
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That's great.