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minus-squareSpeiser0@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·1 month agoDidn’t english literally develop in an insular community (britain)?
minus-squaresylver_dragon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoEnglish is what you get when a community can’t defend its borders and keeps being taken over by new rulers with a different language, which then works its way partly into common usage. Also, random word borrowing, because fuck you it’s ours now.
minus-squareLumidaub@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoNot insular enough to be isolated, hence that saying about it being three languages in a trenchcoat.
minus-squareSpeiser0@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoOf course not isolated, but insular, literally.
Didn’t english literally develop in an insular community (britain)?
English is what you get when a community can’t defend its borders and keeps being taken over by new rulers with a different language, which then works its way partly into common usage. Also, random word borrowing, because fuck you it’s ours now.
Not insular enough to be isolated, hence that saying about it being three languages in a trenchcoat.
Of course not isolated, but insular, literally.