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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span name="Edwin Alexander"><span name="Edwin Alexander"><span class="gD" name="Douglas Hinton">Douglas Hinton</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:douglas.hinton@gmail.com">douglas.hinton@gmail.com</a></span> <br>

</span></span></span>Subject: Interesting theory proposing origins of the english language</font></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></div>

<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I came across this article while browsing one of my favorite websites.<br>The authors propose that english is a scandinavian language as opposed to being a North Germanic language. You can read the article at:<br>

</font><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121127094111.htm" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121127094111.htm</font></a><br><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I don't agree with the article's theory. I think that history already has come to the right conclusion as to the source of the english language. For one thing Old East Norse was quite a different animal then modern danish or norwegian. And english is clearly more closely related to the North German dialects, then to Old East Norse.  Also listening to spoken modern frisian it's not hard to hear it's resemblance to the Southern Danish dialect, so I think the influence of the North Germanic languages spread North and West. Otherwise, both danish and english are related to the Frisian (including Angle and Saxon) language. And that frisian and english aren't descended from Old East Norse.<br>

 Regards, Douglas</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">----------</font></div>

<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span class="gD" name="Edwin Alexander">Edwin Alexander</span> </font><span class="go"><a href="mailto:edsells@cogeco.ca"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">edsells@cogeco.ca</font></a><br>

</span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2012.11.28 (02) [EN]</font></div><div> </div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">On 29/11/2012 12:56 AM, Ron wrote: </font></div>

<div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="im"><div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">  </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Ed, I knew you were kidding. I just tried to yank your chain.</font></div>

</div></div></blockquote><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Look at what I have to put up with in my quest for the oak leaf cluster to accompany my Golden Squirrel Award. <br></font><div class="im"><blockquote type="cite">

<div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mike, let me take this full circle by adding that I know a professor who is convinced that Altaic and Dravidian languages are related, and there are those that both Japanese and Korean are related to Altaic on a pre-Altaic stratum ... And, of course, there's someone convinced that Hungarian and Quechua are related.<br>

</font></div></div></blockquote></div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Now I really wish I knew some Korean beyond anyunghaseyo.  Algonkian dialects present no pronunciation surprises for English speakers and apparently this is also true of Korean.  At least according to one of my sales people who is married to a Korean girl.  However, Algonkian has a very different grammar and expression.  It has made me aware that English and Hebrew are much more closely related than either is with Algonkian.  I would be much more interested in looking at grammatical similarities than vocabulary as I suspect that this may bear more fruit.  <br>

<br> Ed</font></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></span></div>

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