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This sounds like an overused Reddit joke, but there's a pigeon wearing a vest/bra right under the semi-naked woman right at the top of the article.

(I missed it too at first.)

English is a mashup of languages, interesting reading about where words came from

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A lot of people posting either haven't read the post or didn't comprehend it. Yes, the evolution of Old English into the modern form we have today through Norman and other influences is well established. OP is asking how Old English came about.

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English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid 5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands.

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Because England has been invaded so many times, the language has been influenced by the Normans (French), Germans, Romans and the Vikings.

What? Greek never became latin, they're on separate branches of the indo-european language family. Latin became romance languages not by influence via trade routes but because the people in those areas spoke latin natively, which then underwent language change.

One of the best podcasts if you're at all interested in the subject.

What Francis Pryor says is that there was a cultural campaign by the papacy which encouraged Germanic culture and traits to expand into Britain during the early days of Christianity's spread, could well be that it piggybacked on Christian spread or that the Pope caused just enough initial basis for the Anglo-Saxon culture to take root.

We'll be up before the beak

Trade routes. That's how. Same thing happened to Greek when it became Latin, and to Latin when it became the Romance Languages.

Damn it I was going to recommend this. I've binged the podcast. It's so good. I can't wait until he gets to Shakespeare

It's amazing that such a miscommunication from the British to the Americans worked out in our favor.

"We need birds wearing nothing but bras to help the troops!"

If that's true, it means we don't seem to know anything about how DNA influences looks. Those portraits look as random as they can be.

"The History of Britain Revealed: the shocking truth about the English language". MJ Harper. Many have said it is bollocks, though.

I read a book on this but can't recall the title. Back soon if I can find it. Author insisted English evolved in England.

I blame the Dutch. Northern Dutch language sounds like drunken English, or English as I would hear it if I were incoherently drunk.

How the Dutch spread into England and morphed into English? Not sure... there are surely actual answers somewhere in this thread.

You know Oglaf is pretty consistently funny, I enjoy the running gags and the art style itself and the queer inclusivity of it - but Oglaf is at its best when it’s not just a sexy spoof on sword and sorcery tropes, but also has an absurdist element to it, like this one.

Is this footage of an injured pigeon? I’d rather avoid that, otherwise it sounds really interesting.

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Is there not dna/gene evidence? It does sound highly unlikely they all started speaking germanic from trade alone.