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It's just another alphabet > flooded by [...] Germanic words It's a Germanic language in itself, maybe they mean low German loanwords.

The further you get from its Germanic and Latin roots, the proportionally less sense a rough translation makes.

It's just that English refuses to accept that it's a Germanic language and instead puts on airs.

It doesn't excuse the largely international banks a la Deutsche, but it does explain the Germanic outrage.

More specifically, outlawry under Germanic law, where someone was judge to be outside of the protection of the law.

In fact, it could be more surprising that all germanic languages adopted latin alphabet so easily.

Some language and culture vastly different from that of the Germanic and Romance tongues, like English.

Well, this is for esperanto being a conlang that is borrowing mostly from romance, slavic and germanic languages and indo-european languages in general.

English is a Germanic language that has been polluted with Latin (overwhelmingly French).

The Germanic countries have the weirdest people in terms of social awkwardness.

Philosophy was transmitted from the Greek to the Latin, from the Germanic to the French, and presumably it was also extended to the English.

Yes -- and it also inherited French-style plurals (blessedly), and I believe is the only Germanic language with a gerund.

He's misspelled the word, but Germanic and Slavic languages use forms of Italian's "fagotto" for bassoon.

"Cold", on the other hand, comes from Germanic roots (Proto-Germanic kaldaz.) They both come from the Proto-Indo-European root gel- / gol- "cold".

This is substantially different from the rest of Europe, and I wonder why it developed this way?" Quoting from it: > The Swedes retained that almost primordial, archaic concept of individual liberties and rights when other Germanic tribes had been subsumed into other legal or property concepts, such as what happened in the Holy Roman Empire.

Almost all that is described in the blog is the standard across western (or at least Germanic) Europe.

They are all from different groups without many commonalities (Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Sino-Japanese).

While grammatically, English is Germanic, it did borrow a ton of vocabulary from French after the Norman invasion, so from a lexical perspective it's related to the romance languages by proxy.