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	Create New Topic   My Posts   My forum buddies   Invite friends   Private messages Russian brides > Main Forum > want to correspond with an American Author Post Man Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/28/2004 2:15:40 PM   What's this?.....Americans invented English too, now? scottlf Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/28/2004 2:25:58 PM   Ok, I'm borderline off topic. English is a very impure language. At most 50% of modern English has origins WITHIN England. Even so, that really has roots outside of England, too. I quote the following: http://www.wordorigins.org/histeng.htm Old English (500-1100 AD) West Germanic invaders from Jutland and southern Denmark: the Angles (whose name is the source of the words England and English), Saxons, and Jutes, began populating the British Isles in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. They spoke a mutually intelligible language, similar to modern Frisian--the language of northeastern region of the Netherlands--that is called Old English. Four major dialects of Old English emerged, Northumbrian in the north of England, Mercian in the Midlands, West Saxon in the south and west, and Kentish in the Southeast. These invaders pushed the original, Celtic-speaking inhabitants out of what is now England into Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland, leaving behind a few Celtic words. These Celtic languages survive today in Gaelic languages of Scotland and Ireland and in Welsh. Cornish, unfortunately, is now a dead language. (The last native Cornish speaker, Dolly Pentreath, died in 1777 in the town of Mousehole, Cornwall.) Also influencing English at this time were the Vikings. Norse invasions, beginning around 850, brought many North Germanic words into the language, particularly in the north of England. Some examples are dream, which had meant 'joy' until the Vikings imparted its current meaning on it from the Scandinavian cognate draumr, and skirt, which continues to live alongside its native English cognate shirt. The majority of words in modern English come from foreign, not Old English roots. In fact, only about one sixth of the known Old English words have descendants surviving today. But this is deceptive; Old English is much more important than these statistics would indicate. About half of the most commonly used words in modern English have Old English roots. Words like be, water, and strong, for example, derive from Old English roots. Old English, whose best known surviving example is the poem Beowulf, lasted until about 1100. This last date is rather arbitrary, but most scholars choose it because it is shortly after the most important event in the development of the English language, the Norman Conquest. TimH Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/28/2004 2:58:03 PM   Up to 1492 Jet, there was a lot of English which still exists today in common use, granted the terms Computer, and Alimony, and Liberation were not among these early words, but 2 out of the three we could actually do very well without :o)) And if we get the use the original English, well gadzukes and hey nony nony :o)) Yeah !! The whole damn army was called Norman, but the starnge part was that their king was called William !!! ;o)) "Escape from the norm`" ;o) scottlf Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/28/2004 3:52:55 PM   Hmmm.... You must really hate the Normans, Tim! After all, most of the language of the English legal system came from them. :-) GLTALLTOAD Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/28/2004 5:08:48 PM   "...But you Limeys are our heros (after all you did give us the Beatles)! ".... Don't idolize them too much, Ens, lol...after all they also gave us Boy George!!! GLTALLTOAD Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/28/2004 5:11:06 PM   Olga, I hope you enjoy the mess you started..:))) Look at all the english, american and australians trip over each other to get your attention!!! Well done, senorita..:)) toad tradman Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/28/2004 5:20:04 PM   Oh dear, come on boys, we are not really seperated by a common language, we each of us, understand the other perfectly, even the Aussies:)English is a living language, it is constantly adopting new words from both sides of the pond, as is the richer for it. Olga, please feel free to e mail me, we can both benefit, from an exchange of language and cultural ideas TimH Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/28/2004 6:21:35 PM   "After all, most of the language of the English legal system came from them." "And the Romans !!!" "What did the Romans ever do for us ?" "Satitation?" "OK< apart from sanitation have the Romans ever done for us ?" "Errr Aqueducts" "GRRRR Alright !!! Apart from Aqueducts and sanitation, what have the Romans ever given us ?" "Roads ?" "Oh to hell with it I give up !!!!" ensata Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/28/2004 7:28:02 PM   I thought that Boy George was an Aussie, or at least from New Zealand. I mean he is 'down under'. isn't he? scottlf Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/28/2004 8:30:44 PM   Nope, born in Kent, England. TimH Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/28/2004 8:43:28 PM   He is VERY English Im sorry to say, but I did have a good laugh at his expense the night in a fiends club in London, my friend, the owner told him "Shift his fat arse off her stairs" as she needed to get up to her flat and he was sitting there drunk, talking to a group of no hopers :o)) ben112 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/29/2004 12:33:45 AM   Being from the south we speak a whole other dialect. We say you'all, youings and uaughnto, one word version of, do you want to. lol Also bear is bar. Wash is worsh,, etc scottlf Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/29/2004 12:41:55 AM   I spoken with some English "chaps" before where I couldn't discern "forty" from "faulty" tradman Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/29/2004 2:40:40 AM   lol@scott TimH Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/29/2004 6:20:13 AM   Is Trailer Park still pronounced the same Ben ? ;o)) " I spoken with some English "chaps" before where I couldn't discern "forty" from "faulty"" Forty Towers wouldnt be half as funny :o)) Ptichka Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/29/2004 6:50:55 AM   Oh I really enjoyed the conversation here, though I'm very sorry that I wasn't able to join it yesterday...but where is Olga which started this topic actually??? Did she hide away???? Maybe let's go and search for her???:))) TimH Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/29/2004 8:18:44 AM   Maybe she has realised that a can of worms has been opened and Is hiding ;o)) idiotdetector Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/29/2004 8:36:12 AM   No one hear speaks good english like me mate. And sisy bar, I used to have one on my bike govna scottlf Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/29/2004 9:19:44 AM   My point, exactly, Tim. :-) ensata Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 5/29/2004 10:08:38 AM   Maybe this Olga can be my back up plan should things not pan out in Moldova? Your Reply: Your name:   New Registration Password:   Forgot password?   refresh Code:   Russian brides > Main Forum > want to correspond with an American
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