You start with a germanic base then slap a load of Latin in. Parts of the country then get seasoned with some Scandinavian. Lots of exchange with French sometimes anglicising it sometimes not depending on what mood we are in. Couple of vowel shifts along the way and bam one English language. Then for writing have that interpreted by the ducth when they bring the printing presses over and start standardising it.
Yet of you get a few key words people will understand you.
Don't forget we learned a chunk of that French from Vikings who had their own version of it.
And all those words from trade and colonies.
Barbecue is from Taino, chocolate from Nahuatl, languages that most English speakers have never heard of, but ise regularly
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u/ToriYamazaki 16h ago
English is so hard to learn... because of shit like this.
I mean:
I did read that flutes use a reed.
I have read that the car is red.
"Three languages mashed together, wrapped in a trenchcoat" or something like that ^_^