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From: rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards)
Subject: Re: The whole language tree thing.
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In article <AC7F8160966813EC4@yarn.demon.co.uk>, taka@yarn.demon.co.uk
(Paul Talacko) wrote:

> In article <rte-1309951128540001@mac-118.lz.att.com>,
> rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards) wrote:
> 
> >English is unambiguoulsy Germanic
> 
> English is only unambiguously Germanic if you regard it through the current
> most popular model.
> 

Nope.  Has nothing to do with model.  Has to do with what words are
essential to 
English.

I can make a good English sentence with only Germanic words.
I can't do the same with only words of Romance origin.

Have you been reading the posts?
Also you left out the important second half of the above sentence "with heavy
French, Latin and Greek borrowings."  Some of these borrowings can also be found
in the other Germanic languages (but not nearly as many).

-- 
R.T.Edwards rte@elmo.att.com 908 576-3031
