• 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.