Germanic languages

It is significant that Mademoiselle Blanc, a polished and refined intelligence, found the nil admirari attitude of Mark Twain no more enlightening nor suggestive than the stoicism of the North American Indian.

This mirthful and mock innocent naivete, so alien to the delicate and subtle spirit of the French, found instant response in the heart of the Anglo-Saxon and Germanic peoples.

The English and the Germans, no less than the Americans, rejoiced in this gay fellow with his combination of appealing ignorance and but half-concealed shrewdness.

They laughed at this unsophistic naif, gazing in wide-eyed wonderment at all he saw, and they delighted in the consciousness that behind this thin mask lay an acute and searching intelligence reveling in the humorous havoc wrought by his keen perception of the contrasts and incongruities of life.

They were tenacious in resisting all such blandishments.

As a humorist, Mark Twain was never appreciated in France.

The appreciation he ultimately recurred, an appreciation by no means inconsiderable, though in no sense comparable to that won in Anglo-Saxon and Germanic countries, was due to his sagacity and penetration as an observer, and to his marvelous faculty for calling up scenes and situations by the clever use of the novel and the imprévu.

There was, even to the Frenchman, a certain lively appeal in an intelligence absolutely free of convention, sophistication, or reverence for traditionary views qua traditionary.

and in the latin episode we asked what the romans had done for us well they gave us both cheese and wine or at least the words for cheese and wine from weenum and We get wine and cheese.

And they're words that were borrowed into the Germanic languages that became English.

So we've had those words for a really long time, really early borrowings from Latin because we got them direct from the Romans who loved that stuff.

And then...

There's a J in there that's not pronounced.

Um, and it's a Germanic language w- uh, of the Moselle-Franconian variety-

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... which is quite like, yeah, the regional varieties of German across the border.

... you know, which is unkind.

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But it is, yeah, to some extent it's, it's mutually intelligible because of the strong Germanic aspect to it.

So those are the official tri- trilinguals, um, Luxembourgish, French, and, and German.

Within a generation, the plain Anglo-Saxon words for bodily functions and body parts, largely Germanic in origin, became associated with the lower common class, while the Latinate equivalents nobles used became the proper polite alternatives.

That class divide, not any moral or religious ruling, is the actual root of why so many English writers Curse words today are short, blunt, Germanic-rooted words, while their clinical, acceptable equivalents tend to come from Latin.

No single council, church, or king ever formally convened to declare a fixed list of forbidden English words.

The taboo status of most of them emerged the same way so much of what we've covered today did.

More than any companion of earth, she is the measurer.

Early Indo-Germanic languages knew her by that name.

Her metrical phases are the symbol of the order of recurrence.

Constancy in approach and in departure is the reason of her inconstancies.

Enemies feared the Ruthenian warrior, and the name of the country was famed throughout the world.

In language, they are related to other Slavonic peoples just as Latin or Germanic peoples are related among themselves.

The Ruthenian language stands in about the same relation to Russian and Polish, as Italian to French and Spanish, or German to Norwegian and Dutch.

In religion, the Ruthenians are divided into four main classes, the Orthodox, who form the vast majority, about 34 million, The Greek Catholics, who used to be very numerous but having been subjected to much persecution, have dwindled down to five million.