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by fennecfoxen 3775 days ago
> I propose the Dutch don't like English because their language is also bastardization of different languages.

You're calling out Dutch as a bastard? Seems a little backwards, seeing how it's basically English without the French-ification from the Normans. If anyone bastardized the Germanic language group, it was English.

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" Seems a little backwards, seeing how it's basically English without the French-ification from the Normans."

Well, except for the Flemish dialect of Dutch. That has quite a lot of French in it.

Yes, one needs to know four languages in order to be able to coin a word in English.