Huh? English made different grammar. No gender. No adjective, adverb suffix to conform to . . . Easy plurals, just add "s". The Story of English is simply that a Danish man was on the farm with his Saxon wife, conquered. They had the same nouns or near enough but the grammar, "oy". So English invented the preposition and who was attached to what was not a matter of noun conjugation, but preposition AND word order. German can give the same meaning of 3 words and even in reverse. And both the Dane and the Saxon had common words. But, their suffix was different. From this I deduced the Altaic Language group. A similar experience. Who needs excessive grammar when trying to communicate? And it is similarly void of superfluous grammar!The Altaic Language group maybe a retreat from drought to the polar regions forcing peoples of different ancestry to cooperate. I believe it happened in the Younger Dryas period that forced people to the great rivers, Yellow, Indus, Euphrates, Nile, Amazon, Mississippi or to polar regions. Polar regions being, Altaic regions!
POINT: English, similar to the Altaic Language group evolved because peoples with dissimilar grammar evolved a NEW and different more simplified grammar. Your Point ?
I have studied the linguistics and the English Language. What part of the above do you disagree or not understand? BTW by the time of the Grand Children of the French speaking Normans the French language became a foreign language requiring children to get special instruction. Go figure
Looks to me like by “studied” you mean googled a little. In any case, your ‘replies’ seem to have nothing to do with anything I posted.
People can read unedited "The Canterbury Tales". Just amazing. Its always down there, yet they know French and Latin for William the Conqueror and their studies.
Maybe it is the relevance of anything you posted regarding the Dawn of English. I studied French and German as foreign languages. My father was versatile in 5 languages and we discussed linguistics. He admired French and disdained English I was the Anglophile. Family dinner was intellectual discussion. And I highly admire, Robert McNeil the Story of English. You?
The internet is full of know-it-alls and half truths, for the Suggestion that oneself is important enough to need to be known across the continents, etc, am I right? A Laura Croft or whatever. Can you entice us any more about this "Dawn of English". Norman meets Anglo- Saxon culture produces standardize 27 Latin Alphabet English, with Latin-French borrowing words from the Normans. So, major sources are Anglo-Saxon, French, Latin. English as culture suggests Anglo-Saxon meets these changes to middle English.
