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Username: Dennis
Post Number: 4411
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 11:42 pm: |   
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A forceful and entertaining argument for the impact of Celtic (specifically Brittonic) on the grammatical structure of English, by the linguist John McWhorter:
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
"An seanchas gearr,
an seanchas is fearr."
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Do_chinniúint
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Username: Do_chinniúint
Post Number: 393
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 03:54 pm: |
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I love the title, because I have often called English the "bastard child of a French father and a Saxon mother." LOL
Does this title suggest that we should be taking a look at the TV repair man with the funny accent? ;-) |
