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Anglicanism is just another form of Catholicism
HOBNOBS I agree!!! YUMMY!! One can get addicted to them.....
as tempting as it is to say the English language, it is not properly a British contribution. It's as much an imposition of the Anglo-Saxons and Normans on the native British. It's kind of an anti-British contribution.
Ah but is it something unique about the English language, or is it that it’s so widely spoken because of what the British did?
After all, any language in which a persons nose runs but his feet smell can’t be all that great!
Don't forget the Rover
I heard they stole that idea from a territory that they conquered. They should have credit for promoting it, but I don't think they get credit for inventing it.
English? I'm surprised to see English getting so many votes. It's not an easy second language to learn from what I understand. It has lots of inconsistencies and exceptions. Consider the time it takes french high schoolers to learn different languages to the same standard of proficiency:
2000 hours studying German
1500 hours studying English
1000 hours studying Italian
150 hours studying Esperanto
English didn't do too well in that study.
What do you expect? German and English are Germanic, those other two are Romanic - of course the last two will be easier!
English is by far the least germanic of the germanic languages, I would put it in borderline category just like french (bordierline latin/germanic slighty leaning towards latin) and romanian (borderline latin/slavic, slighty leaning towards latin). When listening english language at first I can recognize a lot of similar phonetic to french, Which I dont get slighty at all when I listen scandinavian languages, dutch or german.
Certainly British(including the english) and also the Irish are quite alien culturally in many ways compared to continental europeans and scandinavians, they also dont have the typical germanic aurea which is peaceful and relaxed in terms of sexuality,
brits always like to appear aggresive/threatening (even from highschool ages) and they are way more agressive sexually speaking, they flirt a lot compared to real germanics, and you see how there is accepted for men to pay the bills, there is still a lot of gender disparity where the men is supposed to hunt women, I dont see german/dutch/scandinavian men acting that way, they dont hunt women in that way, and most men would refuse to pay the bills for women, neither those women would like to feel lower than men accepting that.
Also british men like to show who is more agressive and more manly when they are with their counterparts, which is frowned upon in germanic societies where there is not social pressure to show/prove how masculine you are.
Also we could start about how many brits are suffering from social-class inferiority complex, which reminds me a lot how the french are, which in real germanic countries is practically absent. Many brits care a lot to confirm that they belong to certain social class ( be it middle-class, upper-middle class, working class, etc).
The whole debate as to whether we're more similar to French or Germans, Romanics or Germanics has been done many times before and ultimately ends with a result biased towards the particular feelings of the individual person.
Personally I see France, Belgium and obviously Ireland and the Anglosphere as most similar to us. The Germans and Dutch don't feel as close as those others but this may just be my perception. Within Belgium I'm more drawn to Walonia, but that's just my own views.
Hey, no kidding lol You got my vote. I've already called America a new and improved Europe 2.0 in one of the threads.Britain's greatest contribution to the world is America (USA) -LOL!
English is by far the least germanic of the germanic languages, I would put it in borderline category just like french (bordierline latin/germanic slighty leaning towards latin) and romanian (borderline latin/slavic, slighty leaning towards latin). When listening english language at first I can recognize a lot of similar phonetic to french, Which I dont get slighty at all when I listen scandinavian languages, dutch or german.
And about the Brits Behaving like other germanic people...
Certainly British(including the english) and also the Irish are quite alien culturally in many ways compared to continental europeans and scandinavians, they also dont have the typical germanic aurea which is peaceful and relaxed in terms of sexuality, brits always like to appear aggresive/threatening (even from highschool ages) and they are way more agressive sexually speaking, they flirt a lot compared to real germanics, and you see how there is accepted for men to pay the bills, there is still a lot of gender disparity where the men is supposed to hunt women, I dont see german/dutch/scandinavian men acting that way, they dont hunt women in that way, and most men would refuse to pay the bills for women, neither those women would like to feel lower than men accepting that. Also british men like to show who is more agressive and more manly when they are with their counterparts, which is frowned upon in germanic societies where there is not social pressure to show/prove how masculine you are. Also we could start about how many brits are suffering from social-class inferiority complex, which reminds me a lot how the french are, which in real germanic countries is practically absent. Many brits care a lot to confirm that they belong to certain social class ( be it middle-class, upper-middle class, working class, etc).
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