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tbrownawlast Friday at 12:53 PM1 replyview on HN

> only Romance language

...But we're (mostly) not one?


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swiftcoderlast Friday at 5:24 PM

I mean, yes and no? In common speech we certainly lean more on Germanic vocabulary (and grammar!), but the dictionary overall has a lot more French/Latin-derived vocabulary than it does Germanic - many of them overly formal/technical for daily speech

(Entertainingly, modern German also adopted the Latin-rooted "gratis")