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Subject: Re: Susan starts posting

Author:
Allen

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Date Posted: 20:32:47 10/29/12 Mon
In reply to: Arthur Keith 's message, "Re: Susan starts posting" on 21:30:34 10/28/12 Sun

>Oh, and let me not forget that prior to the invasion
>of England by the Normans in 1066, they also spoke a
>Germanic language.

No they didn't, they spoke Norman French! Why do you think there are so many outright French words and derived French words in English?

While the Normans did originally come from Northern Europe and probably spoke a Germanic language, by 1066 they were totally "Frenchified" [if there is any such word!] and spoke Norman French which is considered a dialect of French.

Just as an aside the nearest living language to English is Friesian, from the Friesian Islands in the Northern Netherlands.

Allen

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Deadly Ernest
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Date Posted: 07:47:07 10/30/12 Tue

>>Oh, and let me not forget that prior to the invasion
>>of England by the Normans in 1066, they also spoke a
>>Germanic language.
>
>No they didn't, they spoke Norman French! Why do you
>think there are so many outright French words and
>derived French words in English?
>
>While the Normans did originally come from Northern
>Europe and probably spoke a Germanic language, by 1066
>they were totally "Frenchified" [if there is any such
>word!] and spoke Norman French which is considered a
>dialect of French.
>
>Just as an aside the nearest living language to
>English is Friesian, from the Friesian Islands in the
>Northern Netherlands.
>
>Allen

Allen,

Germanic people known as Saxons, Angles and Danes had been in England and the rest of the British Isles for well over a thousand years before the Norman French arrived with William the Bastard. Prior to the Angles and Danes most of the people in England were Druids, Celts and Brits, with another set of languages. There were also a lot of Romans left wandering around to from the times of Big Julius.

BTW England is derived from Anglesland named after the Angles as they were the most prolific in that area.

Ernest

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Author:
Allen
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Date Posted: 20:57:43 11/03/12 Sat

>
>Germanic people known as Saxons, Angles and Danes had
>been in England and the rest of the British Isles for
>well over a thousand years before the Norman French
>arrived with William the Bastard.

Of course they were! What is your point? The post that I replied to said that the Normans spoke a Germanic language, which by 1066 was not so, they spoke Norman French, as is still spoken in Normandy & Louisiana!

Allen

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Author:
Deadly Ernest
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Date Posted: 19:50:01 11/04/12 Sun

>>
>>Germanic people known as Saxons, Angles and Danes had
>>been in England and the rest of the British Isles for
>>well over a thousand years before the Norman French
>>arrived with William the Bastard.
>
>Of course they were! What is your point? The post that
>I replied to said that the Normans spoke a Germanic
>language, which by 1066 was not so, they spoke Norman
>French, as is still spoken in Normandy & Louisiana!
>
>Allen

G'day,

The statement you responded to was talking about what the English spoke, not the French -

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Oh, and let me not forget that prior to the invasion of England by the Normans in 1066, they also spoke a Germanic language.

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It speaks of what is spoken in England being a Germanic language prior to the Norman invasion.

Ernest