Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/25

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Nordic languages (WAS FS: Leica M3)
From: Paul Hardy Carter <paul@paulhardycarter.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 03:23:47 +0200
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At 17:35 +0200, 25/10/02, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>English, German, Dutch and the Scandinavian languages all belong to the Germanic family, but English more than the others has also been shaped by interaction with other language families. Keep in mind that while the Romans conquered Britain they never ventured up to the barbarians in what today is the Netherlands, Denmark, northern Germany or Sweden/Norway. So English is more influenced by the Latin languages than is the case in the other Germanic languages.

Not to mention the influence of French after the Norman conquest. And the influence of American after the invention of talking pictures...

- - Paul

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