> On 3 Jan 2021, at 16:26, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Normans (who spoke Old French) almost killed English. I think it was late > Old English or something. > > But indeed many words in modern English that seem to be of Latin origin, > actually came via French speaking Normans. > > I still struggle with the fact that my native Russian is based on > inflections, and for some reason, your ancient predecessors, Bob, > determined that wasn't their way :-). > > And man, do I hate articles :-).
Latin is an inflected language - I learned that from age 11 to 18. Functionally English achieves the same thing with word order and prepositions. I mentioned before that I’ve recently started to learn modern Greek, which is also inflected, though less so than Ancient Greek and Latin. I’m very glad that I learned an inflected language when I was quite young, and also a different alphabet (Russian) when I was about twenty as I think it must be exceptionally difficult for an adult English speaker to learn something like Greek or Russian as their first foreign language as you have so many new concepts to learn before you can really get on with learning the language itself. Greek uses its articles more than English does...! -- 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.
