Me too. Congratulations.

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Instablaster

Smart

ഇംഗ്ലണ്ട് = ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് 😄.

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ഇംഗ്ലണ്ട് = ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് 😄.

Are you still alive?

@@user-pn8uh9tg5x I think he is not. Unfortunately

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ഇംഗ്ലണ്ട് = ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് 😄.

The RP accent is the standard British accent, but even that has changed over the years and is less shrill. Pure RP is spoken by a relatively small percentage of the British population as a whole. Most people in the UK speak with a regional accent and even local dialects. As an example: Scottish English is very different from say, London English and Wales even has its own language that English people cannot understand. However, if you want to be understood anywhere in the UK, adopting a gentle RP accent is the way to go. BBC news presenters are a good place to start.

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That is the voice of Frank Phillips.

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Are you English?

presumably you are from south of Watford

@@richlisola1 "Oh, Dad, we're all -DEVO- English!"

I think it helps that we don't have that much inflection. Once you have a basic grasp of the word order, it's just like Lego bricks. That said, the spelling is just awful, isn't it? :)

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Allowed.

Well MY grandmother was. So I guess I'm halfway there. NOT proud of IT though!

@@mathiasniemeier4359 your nan must be so proud to have spawned such a wanker.

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@@mathiasniemeier4359 Hope you're proud of your other half or maybe it should be three quarters.

Alan F Brookes nope..the Saxons are a German tribe.. and still there.. they have nothing to do with the kingdom of Saxony.. which is another story.. they did not conquer Saxony. But that is too difficult to explain. The Saxon tribe is still in it's place.. they're called Niedersachsen ..Low Saxony ..nothing to do with modern Saxony.. .. greetings from a Saxon (Tribe) living now on foreign territory in modern Saxony (Kingdom) .. you should google Niedersachsen.. (Land of the tribe ..still in northwest Germany on the coast..and a federal state) and Saxony (Kingdom, in East Germany another federal state)

12000BC was Ice Age.

my father's side are from west Germany was once spelt Fischer my grandfather is Storer and my grandmother is Briton I'm from Newark upon Trent, the key town to the North. Dainesland I go all the way back.. British Council also made *Market Town 1941* it's My home Newark, Newark history is incredible... you may also like to watch. Newark- civil war Newark secret tunnels ( I discovered the old civil war stables, which is now the National civil war center)

Is it Norse? I've always known it as a Scottish term and so I assumed it came in from Gaelic. That said, most of my Scottish ancestors were from the extreme north and mostly Norsemen.

One of the main languages spoken in Indonesia is Malaian. I'm not sure, if the Malaian spoken in Malaysia is exactly the same as in Indonesia, but the copy of this film used for the upload could have been made for Malaysia, a British colony until 1957.

ramamonato a

There will have been a British Council out in Indonesia . This film will have been made to be shown out there. Or maybe even made out there,

@chanctonbury63 What the heck are you talking about? When the Romans retreated from Britain, everyone on the island was still speaking Celtic languages, as the influence of the Latin language there was limited, unlike in Gaul or in Spain where it pretty much replaced the original languages. The various Germanic groups such as the Angles (whom the word "English" comes from) and the Saxons only arrived later, and they had been even less Latinized than the Celtic Britons. So if no one had invaded Britain after the departure of the Romans, the Britons would have continued to speak Celtic to the present day, and the English language would not even have come into existence.

​@chanctonbury63 Well yes, it did. The Celtic languages were not replaced by Latin in the same way as Gaulish or Iberian languages were, and most of the Latin influence on the English language came from the subsequent Christianisation of the Isles and then the Norman invasion even later on. Now talking about sleeping, you must have slept a little too much during history lessons to spout such uneducated nonsense. Oh, and you can shove your aggressiveness up yours while you're at it.

​@chanctonbury63 I brought Gaulish and Iberian into the mix to prove my point that the Romans had only a limited impact during their occupation because they didn't wipe out the indigenous languages. Why the hell does it matter that I'm the one who introduced this argument? It's a relevant argument, and you are unable to respond to it, just admit it. About the connection between English and Christianity, it is a historical fact that the Christianization of the non-Romance-speaking peoples of Europe brought with it a partial Latinization of their languages (at least, those parts of Europe that were closer to Rome and the former Western Roman Empire; the parts of Europe that were closer to the Byzantine Empire were generally more Greek-influenced, for example the Cyrillic script was directly derived from the Greek alphabet rather than from the Latin one). Your next sentence about English coming from Rome makes zero sense, so I'm not going to comment on it. About Bede, did you even read what I wrote? Yes, he wrote in Latin, and not in Celtic (by the way, why put Celtic in quotation marks? It's a real word and a real language family), precisely because he was part of the movement that attempted to Christianize the island, and originally Christianization and Latinization went hand in hand. And yes, Vulgar Latin was still being spoken long after the Saxons (and the Angles, and the Jutes) arrived in Britain, and still was by the time of the Norman invasion, precisely because of that Christianization period that occurred during the 7th century (which was AFTER the Germanic settlement of the island, and not during the Roman occupation, as you seem to believe it). And of course, Christianization was mostly carried out from the top by the Church and the ruling class, which both played "a large part", as you put it. In fact, your last two sentences just prove my point that the Latinization of Britain happened mostly after the departure of the Romans. Do you even proofread yourself? Because you're admitting I'm right without even realizing it. In any case, I now have confirmation that you're a r*t*rd on top of being uneducated. Oh, yeah, now I'm pulling out the insults since you apparently have no qualms about being aggressive towards people.

​@chanctonbury63 "Nobody ever claimed Latin wiped out the `indigenous` languages. You brought that in." But Latin DID replace the indigenous languages in Gaul and Iberia, but not in Britain. That's why I brought about this comparison, to show that, contrary to your statement, just because the Romans had stayed longer in Britain wouldn't have necessarily meant that Latin would have become the native language of the inhabitants. And again, why the f*ck does it matter that I am the one who said that? It's a valid argument, and you have nothing to respond to it, that's why YOU are trying to "muddy the waters", as you put it. And stop putting words in quotation marks as if they were meaningless. Indigenous languages are a real thing. "Your first statement is that English is a Germanic language. It is not" Oh, I'm sorry. I thought we were talking about real-world history, but you are obviously talking about some parallel universe that solely exists within your brain. Why didn't you say that sooner, you would have saved us some time. Jesus f*cking Christ, English IS a Germanic language, whether you like it or not, open any encyclopedia or any book about linguistics, they will ALL tell you that English is part of the Germanic language family. You are just plainly denying historical facts, why the f*ck am I wasting my time with you? "All the Gaulic, Iberian, Christianity stuff are just an attempts to move the goal posts your way by muddying the waters a bit." No, they are arguments aimed at proving that YOUR first statement, namely that English would have been a "majority Latin language" if no one had invaded Britain after the departure of the Romans, makes ZERO f*cking sense, because it was the Germanic invaders who brought what would become the English language to Britain. So no Germanic invaders, no English language. And their language was a Germanic one, because English is a Germanic language, as any person who has ever been to school will confirm you. So far, I haven't seen any substantial response from you to these arguments, only pitiful ad hominem attacks trying to awkwardly hide the fact that you don't know what to reply. "You are wrong. Deal with it." Says the history denier who claims that English isn't a Germanic language. But please go ahead, you actually amuse me. What's it going to be in your next comment? That man has never been to the moon?

​@chanctonbury63 enDOTwikipediaDOTorg/wiki/English_language enDOTwikipediaDOTorg/wiki/Germanic_languages (replace DOT with .) Oh my, look at those fake news Wikipedia articles that claim that English is a Germanic language, when all enlightened people know it's false. Clearly it must be part of a wide elitist conspiracy to hide the truth from the populace. I see no other explanation. Well, except that you're a complete moron who's clearly wrong and who so desperately refuses to admit it that he won't hesitate to deny basic historical facts just to avoid acknowledging he's wrong, but this explanation is kind of a stretch, isn't it? The conspiracy explanation is much more believable, don't you agree?

Traditionally we were all taught French but Spanish is often the language of choice in schools now.

Good question- I am very curious about the Picts

As I understand it the Picts were conquered by the Scots who came from Ireland sometime before 1000 AD.

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Steady on, old chap! :)

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It's a germanic word. This word is similar in all Germanic languages: plunder (eng), plündern (germ), plünnern (low germ) plyndering (nor), plyndre (den), plunderen (ned), plundra (swe), plonderje (fris).

ഇംഗ്ലണ്ട് = ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് 😄.

Intikhab alam it's me, standard vintage British newsreader accent, as you will.

It superseded it after the treaty of Versailles.

Frank Phillips

Do you properly mean: "That's a hen, not a cockerel"?

and france?

actually you can't pinpoint the where a certain language really began....... but maybe you are referring to the Germanic tribes that invaded some places in Europe which includes France.

Angeln region of what is today northern Germany.

Yes. Various tribes such as the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and some Frisians migrated from what is today Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, and displaced (and probably intermarried with) the native Celtic Britons. One of the German states is still called Lower Saxony (German: _Niedersachsen_, Low German: _Neddersassen_); a small peninsula in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein is still called Anglia (German and Low Saxon: _Angeln_, Danish and South Jutlandic: _Angel_); and the large peninsula that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany is still called Jutland (Danish: _Jylland_, German _Jütland_). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxons en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutes en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisians en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Britain en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Saxony en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglia_(peninsula) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutland

No not from latin . When they appeared in the english language they came DIRECTLY from french.

English is much closer to Low German (Plattdeutsch) than to High German. Low German emerged directly from the old Saxon language. Like English Low German has not made the Germanic sound shift. Example: English: tell; Low German: vertellen; High German: erzählen; (t -> z)

i see thank you

The closest language to English is Frisian and Dutch. Dutch is very easy to learn and many phrases are exactly the same as in English. (The following are very formal, literal translations into Dutch) Wat is je naam? Mijn naam is Alfred If someone walked up to from behind and asked you "Wat is je naam?" in Dutch, an English speaker is very likely to understand and respond in English. Its happened to me at least a dozen times while living in Holland.

EN became very simplified before the Conquest. We stopped using genders and most of our inflections used as case endings became obselete, which the germans in their exacting practical way have retained, so much so that they say that a modern Frisian from Holland could read and understand more of Beowulf than what we can as those who use Standard EN as our mother tongue.

Kinda Neat im an american who speaks pretty good dutch. it is not easy to learn. a basic phrase like "wat is uw naam" is kindergarten stuff. i can read any book in dutch now but it took a fairly long time. huge amount of differences.