Re: [OT] Is English just badly pronounced French?

"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

I apologize in advance to Americans who are inevitably aggrieved by
all things French just on principle but this video actually makes a
pretty good case for saying that English is badly-pronounced French
to a large extent. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUL29y0vJ8Q [18 minutes] 

 

When he explains all the English words that are borrowed from French
with only slight spelling and pronunciation changes, you may well be
persuaded by his argument.  

 
Of course it is. The Norman invasion turned English into the
international language that it is, with about 45% words with Latin
roots. Thereafter, English borrowed any word from any language it
needed. Didn't make the spelling work too good.
 
In the nineteenth century, French scholars threw out their loan words
and purified the language, making it useless as an international
language.

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French was the court language of many monarchies, including the Russian
one, and also the language of diplomacy until WW I.