Re: Richard Heathfield's personal threads.

James Kuyper wrote:
Richard wrote:
jameskuyper@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
...
The linguists classify English as a Germanic language. It has
borrowed a lot from other languages, especially Latin and the
Romance languages, particularly Norman Frenchy. However, it's
basic grammatical structure and it's most fundamental words
remain Germanic.

It might be known as Germanic because of the vocabulary but the
English grammar is nothing like German grammar in my opinion.

No offense, and I apologize if I'm wrong about this, but that
sounds like the comment of someone who hasn't learned many
languages other than those two. Sure, there are significant
differences, but lots of similarities, too. I've studied
Spanish, German, Russian, and Mandarin. English and German are
far more closely related to each other than any other pair of
languages I know.

Don't worry. That particular Richard is very close to a pure
troll. The problem is that the name is fairly common, so you have
to PLONK him with a full return address.

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