cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/9070854
Seriously.
Now I’m no scholar, but categorising English as part of the Celtic-branch is just ridoinkulous to me. Like-- that might have been true since before the Roman conquest, but Modern English is easily a West-Germanic branch, overlaid with Norman French, starting in 1066.
It’s not so much about classification than finding a place to identify it using a suite of yes/no branches based on specific graphems.
German and Dutch are very close languages, but in complete different places in this tree.
German and Dutch are very close languages, but in complete different places in this tree.
So maybe we could use a better platform for understanding? (hence my original point?)
(Modern German and Dutch are both from the West-Germanic tree, last I checked)
specific graphems
Okay, fine, granted-- but how does that actually help anyone in this day & age learn about these languages?
AS IN– dude, we don’t need to carry a master’s degree in order to understand how English formed out of Anglo-Saxon, with Norman French overlaid on top, now do we?
EDIT: Oh rabbits, no, it’s ME whose wrong. Whups…
but how does that actually help anyone in this day & age learn about these languages?
As people said in another comment, it can be useful in identifying languages in settings like Geoguessr.
Silly goose.
I appreciate the work you do on your European graphical novel community, and on Reddit to promote Lemmy, so I wasn’t expecting this kind of personal attack.
I still don’t think you understand the point of the graphic. It’s called “What European language am I reading?”, not “how are these European languages related?”
