[PRCo] Re: Answer to Fred III's post on bilingual drivers

[John Swindler]

That's why English often has two words meaning somewhat the same thing.  Kept both the Anglo and the Norman-French. 
 
(according to an article several years ago)
 
J
 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Answer to Fred III's post on bilingual drivers> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:35:48 -0500> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > You would start a firestorm with that woman who is divorcing me > Robert. Marie is a retired English teacher who would want you to > believe that English is derived mostly from Latin. However, it > probably has more words in it than many other or even most other > languages because we have borrowed from French, German, English, > Spanish, the American > Indians .............................................................ad > infinitum. (That last item as Latin).> > > On Dec 10, 2007, at 5:29 PM, robert simpson wrote:> > > I don't want to start a firestorm, ......> >> > but it is interesting to note that English is derived from German > > - not Latin. While there may be some similarities, they are not of > > the same origin. French, Italian, Portugese, Romanian, and Spanish > > are derived from Latin (the Romance Languages). English has, > > however, derived a considerable part of its vocabulary from Latin. > > This appears to have occurred during the transitional stage from > > German to Old English sometime during the 1600's and may have been > > influenced by French. Syntax differs between German and English - > > also between English and the Romance languages. I took Latin for > > two long years in high school and still am in recovery.> >> > English is the the official language of more countries than any > > other language - estimated at 480 million. Spanish is second with > > 332 million. Mandarin, however, is ranked number one with 1,120 > > million but is spoken in fewer countries! see: http:// > > www.photius.com/rankings/languages2.html> >> > English is the required and official language for aviation.> >> > For more general info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > > English_language> >> > Interestingly, Los Angeles had proposed to make courses in > > Ebonics available in their public schools about a year ago. Los > > Angeles.... very unusual place.....> >> > Robert Simpson> > from Krazy Kalifornia> > ... where English can be heard occasionally.> >> 
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