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classifiedlast Friday at 2:53 PM1 replyview on HN

English also has a ridiculously high fraction of Latin too.


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pessimizerlast Friday at 3:23 PM

Not from Latin but through French - the direct use of Latin in English is generally restricted to technical jargon and legal terms (that English often also share with the French.)

Latin isn't really any sort of parent to Old English afaik, even though the Romans ran Britain for a while.

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