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Anonymous No.24698491 [Report] >>24698506 >>24698933 >>24699177
>French poetry from a thousand years ago sounds closer to English than French
>English poetry from a thousand years ago sounds closer to Dutch than English
Anonymous No.24698506 [Report] >>24698882
>>24698491 (OP)
idgi british cops are based now?
Anonymous No.24698577 [Report]
Yeah the Norman invasion had an effect, what’s your point?
Anonymous No.24698882 [Report] >>24699033
>>24698506
The past few years I have been confused by politics seeing the buds of shoehorn theory emerge. I stopped listening and am getting through the 100s of my hoarded pdf books.
Anonymous No.24698892 [Report] >>24698995 >>24699011
>british police are nazis because.. they aren't racist like me
this dude has lost it
Anonymous No.24698933 [Report] >>24699072
>>24698491 (OP)
>>French poetry from a thousand years ago sounds closer to English than French
How do you figure?
Anonymous No.24698995 [Report] >>24699018
>>24698892
It has nothing to do with racism. It’s about the Father Ted creator being arrested for calling trannies out as men.
Anonymous No.24699011 [Report]
>>24698892
Go live in China
Anonymous No.24699018 [Report]
>>24698995
If I recall the right guy, he‘s long been one of those who thought he could stay out of the crosshairs by being a 2000‘s tier anti-racist. I‘m glad he got proven wrong.
Anonymous No.24699033 [Report]
>>24698882
>pdf books
Anonymous No.24699072 [Report]
>>24698933
By reading academic material on which says it does mostly due to French not having so many silent letters then and the nasals still being spoken with the middle of the tongue. English accent gradually changed after the Norman conquest to (11th Century) French when it sounded Ike Dutch originally
Anonymous No.24699151 [Report] >>24699162
Nigga I like to give me some 1,000-year-old French poetry.
That's just after the Merovingian dynasty. French didn't even exist back then.
Anonymous No.24699162 [Report]
>>24699151
My nigga and powerful brain on Medieval literature doesn’t even know what La Chanson de Roland is :skull:
Anonymous No.24699177 [Report]
>>24698491 (OP)
English used to be a proper Germanic language