Languages
I know English is a language that has adopted other languages' words and sort of, if at all, reformed them.
I can say that April is April in German.
Blut is Blood in German. So we've reformed the word, from them. (Rather the ancestors of the English language, speaking as though all who speak the English tongue are part of the same language holding family.)
Some but few words in Spanish sound similar in English, same with French.
It seems, the English origins came from many, if not all, Latin formulated languages.
Which is a well known fact, I just find it absolutely interesting. It makes me wonder, did a french person, Spanish person, German, Italian, and so on peoples just sat down in a table and was like, "we should make a language that consist of words similar to each of our tongue and it will be the new Latin bastard language." (using the term bastard language because 1) a Hindi friend said it like that and 2) there was a form of a bastard Latin and a classical Latin. Some might say the British English is the classic English and American English is the bastard English, that's why many differ from using the spelling. Like spelling Doctor like Doctore, and math like Maths, and so on. Though it should not be offensive, if you understand that there are different forms of languages, dialects differing from every land and reshaping to their speech.)
(One should not find themselves upset if an Irish person speaking English says Toe-Mah-Toe, and a Brit saying, Tuh-May-Toe, and an American says, Toe-may-toe.)
The people gathering nod in agreement, they start speaking in each others tongue because they had to learn one anothers language in order to communicate. And they decide, "What should be our word for hello?" Says the German in his tongue.
"Hallo?"
"Hola?"
"Bon-Jour?"
The Italian disagrees and says, "we can form a new word, like 'hello', instead, and..." the conversation goes on.
They might had even started with "Hullo," instead, but that depends on the area...maybe, and time.
I can say that April is April in German.
Blut is Blood in German. So we've reformed the word, from them. (Rather the ancestors of the English language, speaking as though all who speak the English tongue are part of the same language holding family.)
Some but few words in Spanish sound similar in English, same with French.
It seems, the English origins came from many, if not all, Latin formulated languages.
Which is a well known fact, I just find it absolutely interesting. It makes me wonder, did a french person, Spanish person, German, Italian, and so on peoples just sat down in a table and was like, "we should make a language that consist of words similar to each of our tongue and it will be the new Latin bastard language." (using the term bastard language because 1) a Hindi friend said it like that and 2) there was a form of a bastard Latin and a classical Latin. Some might say the British English is the classic English and American English is the bastard English, that's why many differ from using the spelling. Like spelling Doctor like Doctore, and math like Maths, and so on. Though it should not be offensive, if you understand that there are different forms of languages, dialects differing from every land and reshaping to their speech.)
(One should not find themselves upset if an Irish person speaking English says Toe-Mah-Toe, and a Brit saying, Tuh-May-Toe, and an American says, Toe-may-toe.)
The people gathering nod in agreement, they start speaking in each others tongue because they had to learn one anothers language in order to communicate. And they decide, "What should be our word for hello?" Says the German in his tongue.
"Hallo?"
"Hola?"
"Bon-Jour?"
The Italian disagrees and says, "we can form a new word, like 'hello', instead, and..." the conversation goes on.
They might had even started with "Hullo," instead, but that depends on the area...maybe, and time.
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