https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_French_origin_(A%E2%80%93C)
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The Origins of the English Civil War: An Anthology, Part 1
I've read books that pertain to the Civil War and its origins. I thought it'd be worthwhile to assemble and order relevant material that I've extracted from 3 of those works (The English Civil Wars, Blair Worden.. Leviathan, David Scott.. White King, Leanda de Lisle). I tend to do a lot of highlighting, so what follows are just my own distillations of those sometimes several page long passages that particularly interest me. Think of it as a series of snapshots rather than a comprehensive narrative. The modern conception seems to be that a violent conflict wasn't inevitable, that there was no preordained unfolding of history (marxist or otherwise), but I tend to think that an anti-monarchical backlash was in a sense irresistable once protestantism was combined with a relative lack of aristocratic autonomy, once a civic-legal mentality replaced the historic chivalric-military one. A majority of peers may have supported Charles, but by the 1640s enough had turned on their king to tip the scales.
(English Civil Wars, 14) England was traditionally more centralised than the continent. The local power of landowners, incl magnates, depended on royal approval. The largely legalistic education required to handle the increasing scope of local administration (16th cent) 'equipped them, should consensus break down, to make trouble: not through armed resistance, which from James's accession until the breakdown of Charles I's rule seemed a thing of the past, but through civilian means, and especially in parliament. From the late sixteenth century the crown sensed a weakening of its position. The gentry, together with the population at large, were increasing in number; so was the composition of the House of Commons; and the greater the number of candidates for office and favour, the smaller the proportion whom the crown had the resources to reward.' There was a heightening as well as broadening (to merchants, lawyers, constables, etc) of political awareness (e.g, a new found reverance for the common law, and other medieval precedents, as guarantor of 'liberty').
(English Civil Wars, 17) 'Where the kings of France and Spain set the estates, and the classes they represented, against each other, in England there were no classes to divide. Lords and Commons were separate political orders but not separate economic or political interests. Primogeniture produced intermarriage and social fluidity between peers
... keep reading on reddit β‘This site was posted to /r/InternetIsBeautiful today and the thread got lots of comments. Most of them were fairly good about how this doesn't tell us anything about how we perceive colors, just about how we name them. This particular comment was both very long and almost entirely incorrect.
This long comment starts off with some wrong assumptions:
>In short with English you have descriptors like "Tuscan brown", or "Spanish Blue", or "pastel" and "web".
>This is almost entirely and totally a result of English being a Germanic language that has inherited the bulk of it's word from French.
No, English did not inherit the bulk of it's words from French. And no, the esoteric and specific names for colors isn't a result of English being oh so special. It's simply paint manufacturers and sellers wanting to have a more enticing name for Tuscan Brown than #dda180 on the RGB chart.
>French itself is not the relevant point, but the idea that English is a living language that consists of words which largely originated from other languages (in this case Latin) is what you need to take away from this.
Because of course no other languages do this? And again the idea that English language comes primarily from other languages (and I thought it was French that English borrowed from, not Latin?)
>Anyway so East Asian languages aren't like that. I'll use Korean as an example because I'm most familiar with Hangul although it applies to Chinese.
So Korean is part of the Altaic family of languages and Chinese (and which variety of Chinese is this supposed to refer to anyway?) is part of the Sino-Tibetan family, yet this principal applies to both of them?
>In any kind of descriptive categorization like colors, distances, approximations, etc., you will find similarities that are kind of obvious (ocean blue, eg), but when you get into the minutiae of things they have a tendency to just start lumping in things.
Given how much this person has talked about their difficulties in communicating while in Korea (doesn't even know the word for monkey-wrench), I'm going to have to go ahead and say that it's not that Korean doesn't have these specific sorts of names for colors, it's that this person doesn't know them.
Also English is perfectly capable of "lumping" things together as well, and in fact if you d
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Languages with spelling rules that are highly phonetic (e.g. German) may be more logical in that sense, but discarding history as worthless also comes with a twinge of regret.
Ghanian Pidgin
hustler = job seeker
big man = employed
make you no worry = donβt worry
charlie = my man
man, you fβ¦d up = shit happens
chaley, you do all = kudos
ah-beg-wa = sorry pal for wrongdoing
I no dey like = I donβt like it
you for shun dats thing = stop what youβre doing
ih no dey hia = no need to do it
I fih do it = I can do it
you for hustle = you gotta make money
For example, the word "Kitab" is Arabic for "book" and you find it in use in Urdu, Farsi, Turkish, Indonesian, Bosnian, Malay, Rohingya, Swahili, etc. Also, the word "Fa'idah" is Arabic for "Benefit" and you find that in Urdu (and Hindi), Turkish, Farsi, Swahili, Indonesian, Bashkir, etc. I was wondering if anyone knew of more words like this.
Inner French (in French) https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCI4xp8qHD1MDErkqxb1dPbA/videos
Français Authentique (in French) https://m.youtube.com/user/francaisauthentique/videos
Comme Une Française (mainly in English) https://m.youtube.com/user/CommeUneFrancaiseTV/videos
The perfect French with Dylane (in English) https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCBpW2RaZJ8sIRZIISpR7DIw/videos
Search engine to find YouTube videos with French subtitles. Not always reliable though https://www.zerotohero.ca/#/en/fr/youtube/
Hello all,
First of all, I think this whole idea of "Anglish" is awesome. I like to use Germanic synonyms whenever I can, especially in front of French speakers hehe.
I am just wondering what the overall consensus is when it comes to Anglo-Norman/French words that in fact are of Frankish stock? Would you say that's a Germanic word or still nonetheless a non-Germanic word? words like garden, choice, bastard, etc...
Thanks!
Both seem like legitimate avenues to pursue, but I would just like to be completely sure. I'm not sure what counts as legitimate research into Russian culture and history (what books or websites are legit, and in-depth), so I figure I will ask, before delving in. Π‘ Π½Π°ΡΡΡΠΏΠ°ΡΡΠΈΠΌ!
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I'm interested in (dropping of) [S] /ss/ within a word, not word-initial or final.
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Historically, it's common in French, but in everyday speech ?
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/dropping-s-and-d-puerto-rico.690264/
> Just as the -S ceased to be pronounced in standard French, even though it is still written, although some words went through some sort of a spelling modification.
> - E.g. estre came to be written Γͺtre, chasteau --> chΓ’teau, coste --> cΓ΄te.
> Yet the -S of plural markers and second person singular endings are retained even though they are not pronounced anymore.
> The S-dropping is one the most salient features of the natural evolution of the Romance languages.
It's apparently common in some dialects of Spanish
> So, the next time you talk to someone from Madrid, tell them they are s-dropper, just like Andalusians :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Yiddish_origin
To be honest, I never heard of most of these, but here are some words that I kinda hear the most:
- Bagel
- Glitch
- Golem (Really? Mythical shit?)
- Klutz (Wonder if "clumsy" comes from this)
- Meshuggah (000-0-000-0-000-0-000-0-000-0-... Sorry, "Bleed" is a dope song)
- Nu (Metal... just kidding)
- Schlong ;)
- Schmo (Like Joe)
- Schmuch
- Spiel/Shpiel
- Verklempt (I heard this word on a show somewhere... so I added it)
The British isles were once ruled by the French, although the population spoke English. To differentiate themselves from their less well-off neighbors, upwardly mobile subjects adopted some of the French terms while keeping the English terms. Is this the case? Do you know other examples of words like beef and pork?
She is also Irish. I just want to know if it is a common error for English native speaker or an Irish pattern of sound transformation and if it is something you could/should work on? Could it be sign of orofacial myofunctional dysfunction?
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