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this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2024
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If this is his thought process, he should take it a step further.
French is just badly pronounced Latin.
My mother (who is french) describes the language as "Latin, but mumbled around a cigarette"
With more phlegm.
So what’s German then? A bunch of that overlaps with English words too from my recollection.
german is just language lego - you just keep building new words from old parts.
Swedish checking in.
I choose to believe French is just ugly Catalan
it's all PIE
always has been
But in this case French actually is Latin. English isn't a descendant of French, but French is derived mostly from Latin