LL-L "Language varieties" 2012.11.29 (01) [EN]

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From: Douglas Hinton douglas.hinton at gmail.com
Subject: Interesting theory proposing origins of the english language
I came across this article while browsing one of my favorite websites.
The authors propose that english is a scandinavian language as opposed to
being a North Germanic language. You can read the article at:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121127094111.htm

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.
Regards, Douglas

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From: Edwin Alexander edsells at cogeco.ca
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2012.11.28 (02) [EN]

On 29/11/2012 12:56 AM, Ron wrote:


Ed, I knew you were kidding. I just tried to yank your chain.


Look at what I have to put up with in my quest for the oak leaf cluster to
accompany my Golden Squirrel Award.

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.

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.

Ed


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