To be fair, English has taken on so much foreign influences it is really an outlier in Germanic languages. And there is so much Norman French influences that a lot of French words are recognizable to English speakers. Resentiment? Nietzsche is just using all these strange French words, I resent this.
“Any Romance Language Influence” doing some real heavy lifting for Mr Bean’s Germanic language ass
To be fair, English has taken on so much foreign influences it is really an outlier in Germanic languages. And there is so much Norman French influences that a lot of French words are recognizable to English speakers. Resentiment? Nietzsche is just using all these strange French words, I resent this.
A plurality (majority?) of English vocabulary comes from French or Latin
Ye, for sure. The Normans did a hell of a number on English. Its family tree is all Germanic though
yeah but the Germanic words represent a higher proportion of the things people say