English is 0% German other than loanwords like "zeitgeist".

What is more accurate to say is that English and German descend from a common ancestor: Proto-Germanic. Saying English descended from German would be just as wrong as saying German descended from English.

The fact that "German" and "Germanic" sound similar does not mean that they are the same thing, nor that modern standard German is somehow the official representative of the Germanic languages.

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madcaptenor 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

IIRC the reason that the family got the name "Germanic" is basically that it was some Germans that came up with the idea. I'm having trouble sourcing this though.

	▲	paleotrope 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The romans called the area Germania after the germani that lived there. Germani is believed to be a celtic word though. So it's possible that the original Germani were actual celtic speakers. Which is another branch of old indo-european.
	▲	paleotrope 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Last I heard was that the German tribe the language group was named after weren't even germanic soeakers. Like the fact that the Franks were a germanic speaking tribe who abandoned their language for the local dialect of latin which become French.
	▲	umanwizard 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The German word for the ancient Germanics isn’t the same as their word for present-day Germans (Germanen vs. Deutsche).

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adamzwasserman 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

true

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Joel_Mckay 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Except "German" is an English word for Deutsch

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