For those interested in the history of the english language (without getting into a dry ivory tower program) I highly recommend the books: "The Mother Tongue (English and How it Got that Way)" by Bill Bryson and "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English" by John McWhorter. Entertaining and educational.
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Henk Terhell <[email protected]> wrote: > Here a good overview of the variety of Germanic languages: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8LxRfdLrlU > Proofs how difficult it is to understand each language within such a small > area. Even Frisian for the Dutch is almost impossible without prior > knowledge. > > Henk > > > Bob W-PDML schreef op 18-4-2015 om 09:32: > >> where. Here's Eddie Izzard talking Old English to a Friesian farmer: >> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34 Not entirely sure that he's proved >> his point, but of course Friesian has changed in the centuries since it and >> OE separated. I've had similar conversations in Italy and Romania just by >> making something up out of bits of Latin, French and Spanish. That's why my >> herd of cattle is so multinational. B > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
