| ▲ | emmelaich 3 days ago | |
Relevant and entertaining: Why Shakespeare Could Never Have Been French by Tom Scott | ||
| ▲ | dhosek 2 days ago | parent [-] | |
Not quite what I was expecting—I was thinking that it was going to be because English has a somewhat weird history, being a Germanic language that’s incorporated a rather large amount of Latinate vocabulary between the Romans and the French. This allows for differing registers in language that don’t exist in other languages because there’s a choice between Latinate vocabulary and Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, something which Shakespeare also made great use of. | ||