Only 3 for GB.Good luck Cav

[hrotha]

The influence of French is mostly lexical - but has happened intermittently throughout the history of the language.

In that four lines, however, you've used the following Romance elements:
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The lexical element from Romance accounts for a huge percentage of the word stock. Grammatically though, the language is primarily still West Germanic, with some North Germanic traits from Norse.

Well, yes, I did use several Romance words, but this is not a normal conversation, it's relatively high-register written text on a more or less specialized topic.

It's not hard to do without those words if you give it a go, like I'm doing right now.

The basic vocabulary, the most commonly used words, are for the most part Germanic.

Well, it's a West Germanic language, so of course it resembles more to Germanic languages. But the influence of the French language is not to be overlooked at: Impact on language --> cultural impact and the rule of the Plantagenet family was obviously a huge political impact.

No, I don't mean it's more similar to the descendents of Old Norse than to French. I mean the contact between Old Norse and Old English in bilingual zones is probably what caused Old English to lose its case system, among other things. The influence of French on the English grammar was very, very small, and its impact on the vocabulary is similar to the impact of Latin.

Culturally, of course, there was a time in the Middle Ages when the English nobility was every bit as French as the nobles of Ile-de-France.

 

[aahmadhu]

FROM the WC race tactics & potential outcome, potential winners, why cavendish can & cannot win, TO the angevin empire, history of language, rise and fall of the roman, norman, english, german and french.

i need a vodka.

 

[boardhanger]

FROM the WC race tactics & potential outcome, potential winners, why cavendish can & cannot win, TO the angevin empire, history of language, rise and fall of the roman, norman, english, german and french.

i need a vodka.

............pour me one too.......

 

[davis_123]

Shouldn't be a problem. The Aussies recently lost to P.akistan FFS. England have three bowlers in the top ten of the World Rankings and the batsmen have all been getting runs (apart from Cook). I predict misery for the convicts.

(The censors won't let me write ****stan. How bizarre)

Hahahaha, The Poms? Beat Australia on home soil. You do realize that hasn't happened in 25 years right?

 

[sienna]

Isn't the Isle of Man a separate national entity?

 

[Ferminal]

Isn't the Isle of Man a separate national entity?

Yeh Cav could represent the Manx in New Delhi!