Thanks, Will check it Out!

How does zero evidence and Dane Geld correlate?

I'm here in the states and am well read and have never heard that as well, so you're not crazy.

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I've always had a theory that the settlers. while very hard working, kind of ran out of names by the time they got to the Mississippi river and just started repeating everything.

In Texas they have Palestine, which is named after Palestine, Illinois, not the original place. lol

Kalkarush! Squab on a stick!

Came to say the same thing

I wonder if another clue might be that the remaining Celtic languages of Britian all refer to the English as 'Saxons'. Sasanach, Saeson, Sassanach, Sows, Saoz

As is nearly every other language, French is a mix of Gaulish, germanic Frankish, Latin and more. Yet no one tries to deny France existing to the extent that happens with England/English as a nation.

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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2339007-dna-records-reveal-mass-migration-from-europe-into-anglo-saxon-britain/

I believe it suggests that some DNA has come from the continent since, but it highly suggests that the Anglo Saxons came en mass and largely replaced the native Romano-British.

Which to be honest I think anyone with a brain should have known by looking at the basic facts. Even just that English has very little Celtic influence suggests that all the native Celts (that supposedly are the ancestors of the English) didn't just suddenly and rapidly abandon their language

I assume he meant “how Greek-speaking lands became Latin-speaking lands,” not that Greek literally evolved into Latin. Though, that’s me being generous since his second point was about how Latin did evolve into others.

You should see it here in the states, where we just stole our town names from other countries! We have London's, Sidney, Russia, Kensongton, Aberdeen, Kenmare; there are bergs and burgs and boros galore. Unfortunately, nobody bothered to steal any of the classy sounding names like Strafford-on-Avon . and I have no clue how we ended up with a city called Intercourse 🤣

Can you provide a summary for those who don’t have hours and hours to listen to this podcast? OP’s opinion seems pretty fringe based on what I’ve learned, but it’s hard to tell from your comment if this podcast agrees or disagrees with them.

I’m more surprised there’s no bras, wearing pigeons like the title suggests.

How does danish and norwegian fit in here?

John McWhorter’s “Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue” is a good starting place.

It's definitely not German. Sure it's similar, but that because it's a West Germanic language like German. But German isn't even English's closest relative.

Also you're overlooking the Norman Conquest when England was literally conquered & ruled over by Frenchmen.

> Let's assume this theory is correct

It is not. It is a crackpot conspiracy theory.

> ...and that there never was an invasion or mass migration of Germanic peoples to the British Isles in the early medieval period.

Why would you do this? It is as dumb as assuming there was never an invasion or mass migration of Italic peoples (the Romans) into Gaul or Hispania.

> In that case, how the hell did a new Germanic language spring up on an island that had previously only spoken variations of Latin and Celtic?

There are only two possibilities - either the Germanic language we know as English isn't actually spoken in Britain, or the Angle-Saxon-Jute denialists are cranks.

Hint: English is spoken in Britain.

It is Germanic, rather than German. It shares a common ancestor with modern German and belongs to the same family as Dutch.

It's because that statue likely ends up on the thumbnail and looks a lot cooler/more impressive.

What makes it the best for me is that it’s at least 50% history and 50% linguistics because, you know, they are so closely related. I listen to it as often as I can but not more than one episode per day to give me a chance to think about it. Kevin Stroud is my personal hero, right after Richard Feynman.

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They were just vests, since pigeons don't have breasts.

But "bras" attracts more clicks, I guess.

This subreddit is starting to look more and more like a Facebook feed.

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In the U.S. "Anglo-Saxon" identity connotes racial purity and is a longstanding racist concept and buzzword.