Originally posted by HS Thomas:
Charlemagne always sounded more German to me. But those wins you listed Bela are impressive and definitely not to be dismissed.
Originally posted by herb slocomb:
Secondly, Napolean was not French.
And lastly, Napolean did eventually lose, so it seems the French did not win any war (although they did win battles).
Originally posted by herb slocomb:
Secondly, Napolean was not French.
And lastly, Napolean did eventually lose, so it seems the French did not win any war (although they did win battles).
Originally posted by HS Thomas:
No, Napolean was a little Corsican. And Hitler was an Austrian.
And the Austrians lost more people . A very confusing message against
agrandisement of others' cultural values.
Originally posted by HS Thomas:
No. So that he could trip over himself to slow down ?
Originally posted by Bela Bardak:
Do you think the origin of the Nazi salute was actually a violent balancing gesture meant to keep him from tripping over his shoelaces?
In 1066 the Normans conquered Britain. French became the language of the Norman aristocracy and added more vocabulary to English.
Because the English underclass cooked for the Norman upper class, the words for most domestic animals are English (ox, cow, calf, sheep, swine, deer) while the words for the meats derived from them are French (beef, veal, mutton, pork, bacon, venison).
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Is English still germanic ?
I bet it is! Just like we are still children of our parents, even if we undertook a cosmetic surgery and have little to do with them in intellectual, spiritual or whatever else plane.
Originally posted by HS Thomas:
Charlemagne always sounded more German to me. But those wins you listed Bela are impressive and definitely not to be dismissed.
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Originally posted by HS Thomas:
Another discovery: German prisoners of war held in Japan were treated like guests and had a good time and more than a few remained to open beer halls and German restaurants and they thrived. By WWII the treatment of prisoners of war went to the other extreme. So what happened in Japan in the space of 30 years
Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
BB: Perhaps from a academioc linguistic POV English remains a Germanic language.
Perhaps from an academic linguistic POV you are still a son of your father! From any other, real, POV you are, of course, not!
Hi Philippe,
Depends on how we define "derived". I would rather use "influenced" here.
Originally posted by Joe Ess:
I believe it was the re-emergence of the Bushido (Japanese warrior) culture that accompanied the surge of nationalism in post WW1 Japanese military and government. It held the follower to a high moral standard which included courage among its pillars. To die in battle was glorious. To surrender was a horrible disgrace. These ideals also explain why so few Japanese prisoners were taken as the US island hopped across the Pacific in WW2.
Originally posted by Bela Bardak:
Do you think the origin of the Nazi salute was actually a violent balancing gesture meant to keep him from tripping over his shoelaces?
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BB: Both French and German sentence structure seem laughable when the words are translated into English.
HS Thomas: Wonder who settled here before the Germans came.
"Ower de stille straaten,
de Glocken klingen laut:
`Goode nacht, dein hert wilt slaapen,
un morgen is wieder en Dag'"
"Over the still streets,
the clocks ring loud:
`Good night, thine heart willt sleep,
and tomorrow is again a day.'"
"Over the quiet streets,
the church bells ring out loud:
`Good night, your heart want to sleep,
and tomorrow is another day.'"
"Ueber die stille Strassen,
die Glocken klingen laut:
`Gute nacht, deine Herz willt schlaffen,
und Morgen ist wieder ein Tag.'"
Originally posted by Jeroen Wenting:
The name Aryan which they claimed the Germans to be is actually a people from NE Persia (present day Iran) who according to Nazi race laws would have been exterminated as non-Aryan...
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Sadanand Murthy: The word Aryan (where the 1st A is pronounced as in car) has its etymological roots in Sanskrit which means "noble, nobility". Further digging of the root word indicates that this nobility has nothing to do with birth, social status etc but is of the Spirit; meaning spiritual nobility. The ancient name for India is Aaryavarta.
Philippe Maquet: PS: Are you German, Frank ?
and used to look through my sister's books when she was getting her M.A. degree in Linguistics around the same time.
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Frank: If you look at books written for pre-schoolers (age 2 thru 5), you'll find that most of the words are of germanic origin. This is the language core, upon which all other words are added.
By analogy, Persian remains an aryan language, despite the heavy influence of Arabic on its vocabulary.
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When a certain clear-thinking but somewhat superficial French
philosopher asked the profound but obscure German philosopher
Hegel to state his views in a concise form, Hegel answered him
harshly, "These things can be discussed neither concisely nor in
French."
Vladimir Nabokov's Lecture on "The Metamorphosis"
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Dr. David Bourland coined the term E-Prime, short for English Prime, to refer to the English language modified by prohibiting the use of the verb "to be." E-Prime arose from Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics and his observation that English speakers most often use "to be" to express dogmatic beliefs or assumptions or to avoid expressing opinions and feelings as such.
Its advocates assert that the use of E-Prime leads to a less dogmatic style of writing that reduces the possibility for misunderstanding and conflict. One might speculate on the usefulness of E-Prime in constructing encyclopedias concerned with maintaining a neutral point of view.
From an article in Wikipedia, now deleted.
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