I've not cried in days
Tears have screamed to flush my eyes
RIP has come.
English just bad French
French influence on English
Ten sixty six changed.
E. Spencer, poet
'They have made our English tongue
Hodgepodge of speeches.'
In Modern English
What's the future of "I can"?
Something is missing.
It is twice as big
English vocabulary
As French or German.
Basic English words
Such as come, go, work, play, love
Same as German words.
'This is a good book'
From 'Das ist ein gutes Buch'
A German sentence.
A French astronaut:
.'C'est une aventure humaine'
French more abstract thought.
An English speaker
Can understand both of these
What percentage French?
How do we divide
All the sources to English?
It's hard to discern.
English grammar strange
Irregular German source:
One child/two children.
Future for 'I can'?
Switch from 'can' to 'capable'
Then to short 'able'.
'I will be able.'
From German 'kann' to the French
To use French 'able'.
Say it, can spell it
Most languages phonetic
There're no spelling bees!
In German 'ein Haus.'
English 'House' comes from German
But 'House' feels so French.
From Ten-six-ty six
English almost disappeared
Neglected/ignored.
Could have disappeared
But historical events--
Was 'recreated'.
After the Conquest
French gave English better words
Dullness to complex.
English now complex
Everlasting debt to French
Not a 'second Dutch'.
But 449 {Four-forty-nine}
Celts invaded by Saxons
They then fled afar.