[anthk]

English it's a hugely romance-influenced Germanic language.

[iamflimflam1]

I thoroughly recommend this podcast if you are interested in where the English language comes from: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com

[world2vec]

English is a mix and merge of Norman French and Anglo-Saxon.

[mghackerlady]

english is (latin greek french anglic arabic) in a trench coat

[ahartmetz]

The core is just proto-Germanic + Latin via French. A bunch of foreign words don't really count.

[eru]

They also important some foreign grammar here and there.

[hk__2]

Arabic?

[mghackerlady]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabi...

[hk__2]

Thanks, but those are only ~150 random words; that’s not enough to be important.

[mghackerlady]

considering the amount of use a lot of those get (especially in more technical fields), I say it counts