In <[email protected]>, on 11/23/2012
at 07:09 PM, Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]> said:
>For a native German speaker, it is always remarkable that in the
>English language there are often two words for the same thing.
It's worse than that; sometimes there are more than two words for the
same thing, sometimes there are distinctinct English words derived
from the same root.
>One from the "indo-german" or "anglo-saxon" language origin, and
>the other from latin.
Don't forget French[1] and Greek.
[1] Yes, I know it's a Romance language, but it's not the same as
Latin
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