• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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    1 year ago

    Funny thing about those “French” people.

    William the Bastard of Normandy was the grandson of a fellow named Rollo the Viking.

    Rollo had conquered the French northern coast and wrecked so much shit the French king just offered to make him a vassal, and give him more land in the process, if he protected the land he’d taken from other Viking raiders. This area would develop a hybrid culture from the mixing of the Germanic invaders and French population.

    English, already a bastardized Germanic language, combined from the spoken languages of Germanic invaders who would come to be known as Anglo-Saxons and the native population, got further hybridized by a French Viking who actually spoke a French-Germanic dialect known as Norman.

    Tl;Dr

    Sea Germans hate linguistic purity, and English’s problems are all their fault.