(November 29, 2019 at 2:17 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote:(November 29, 2019 at 1:41 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If there's a British accent, why do people from Mayfair sound different from people from Whitechapel?
English isn't a Latin language. It's got some Latin influence, but it has nothing to do with the Romance Languages and you're an idiot.
BoruQuote:About 80 percent of the entries in any English dictionary are borrowed, mainly from Latin. Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots. In the vocabulary of the sciences and technology, the figure rises to over 90 percent.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-origins/
..hmmmmm
You conveniently left out
Quote:About 10 percent of the Latin vocabulary has found its way directly into English without an intermediary (usually French).
English is in one of the Germanic language families (West Germanic, I think, but can't be arsed to look it up). Languages in the Latin family are referred to as 'Romance Languages', which manifestly do not include English.
Boru
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