On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 02:15:53PM +0100, Rainer Fiebig via Gnupg-users wrote: > Am 18.11.21 um 13:27 schrieb Ineiev: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 10:48:55AM +0100, Rainer Fiebig via Gnupg-users > > wrote: > >> That's kind of a misconception: as English is a western germanic > >> language it's not that German made its way into English but English is > >> *based* on German. > > > > To be precise, not on German---it's based on the common ancestor. > > both English and German deviate considerably from it. > > > I guess that saves the day for some. I can almost hear the sigh of > relief. ;)
:-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_English if anyone finds this interesting. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu
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