After a week or so, I found I could make myself understood in Italy by speaking Latin with a Hollywood gangster accent. Almost always worked. But, insight into how English works may be more significant. English is Viking-talk with a Latin overlay.
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Replying to @Meaningness @alicemazzy
It had a lot of viking influence, but the base itself wasn't a viking language.
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Replying to @hllizi @alicemazzy
Fussy technicalities. Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse are mutually intelligible.
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Replying to @Meaningness @alicemazzy
Which how exactly turns Anglo-Saxon into something it isn't?
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Replying to @hllizi @alicemazzy
I am sorry; I wasn’t really arguing. I should have put a :) in there. The Anglo-Saxons weren’t exactly vikings, but they weren’t all *that* different culturally, either, were they?
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And in terms of language structure, Anglo-Saxon isn’t very different from the viking languages. So, Modern English has a Germanic base with a mostly-Latin overlay. If you know any Dark Age Germanic language, plus Latin, that gives a lot of insight into how English works.
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