[SOC] Beschmutzte

[Richard Brunner]

Jan wrote:
" German and English would probably be pretty similar except for about
> 3 centuries of total domination by French and a lot of French and Latin
> influence before and after. "
>
Yes!  Before the Norman Conquest in 1066 AD, a kind of German was spoken in
England.  I've seen samples, and it was not greatly different from modern
German; I can jump right into it.  After the Conquest, Englisch became about
40% French.

Tsch��/Cheers
Richard Brunner, AA1P