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English is just a french dialect
German dialect, actually.
Please elaborate I am intrigued and am looking forward to reading on my next poop break
Essentially the english were invaded by the normans and that changed the english language from a germanic one to the abomination we are familiar with today : a blend of german without the agglutination part, and norman french (which is descended from latin).
Throw the odd Celtic and Dane in there and then boil it all inside a sheep's stomach and you've got English.
Thanks for completing the tree, I am no linguist
That's not a French dialect, it's a creol!
The problem is, there's a lot of french creoles
There's also a lot of French dialects, and English dialects, and English creoles.