Yellow !

[Mike17]

i have no idea if we sound like singing or not but i do find similarities with the sims but i can't really pick it out.

What does make English into a hard but fun language is the huge diffrences over the globe and in sub-cultures.

However a big problem in EU is that we have to many languages and english could and are takin over europe aswell. I think we should make a stance and say - "no more english, make the europeain union talk Latin " i would cry of laughter if the english would be forced to learn it.

A sing-song or lilting accent is not really the same a "singing Swede". We get those when we put an ABBA track on Four, in fact.

There's altogether enough Latin in English already, mostly via the Normans and their church, plus through French, which is derived from Latin, believe it or not, as well as scientific terms. Nothing wrong with English as a "world language" apart from some of its illogical spellings and irregular verbs/plurals- although I think they're part of its charm. The main other candidate would be French, and they're very prickly about keeping their language "pure" and untainted by foreign loanwords. There are more Chinese-speakers than any other- but who wants to learn a zillion characters in order to be able to write?

With English as a world language, there can be three tiers of English- local dialect (like say, West Indies English), a regional dialect (like say AAVE- African American Vernacular English) and Standard English for international discourse. Plus, of course national language(s), which can influence the local or "area" English, as with Scandinavian English.

As a presumed Viking descendant (despite your Italian name, Dante ) like me, you should be proud that English contains so many everyday words of Norse origin like "sky", "skirt" and "window". Plus words from Norman French (Norman=northman=viking).

 

[Lector]

There's altogether enough Latin in English already, mostly via the Normans and their church

(Norman=northman=viking)
You will have to explain that, it dosn't make sence

Viking was the last pagan frontier in Europe, which would mean that england was christian waay before scandinavia which explains the viking invasion of france and england.

And Latin has effected however every european language, it's still needed in Europe to mark a Europan identity that english can't provide

 

[Mike17]

(Norman=northman=viking)
You will have to explain that, it dosn't make sence

The Normans (whose fiefdom is/was Normandy) were descendants of Vikings, Northmen, Men from the North, who settled in, or invaded France and married into local nobility. One of those descendants (from memory, the grandson of Rollo (Latinised Hrólfr or Rolf)) was the Duke of Normandy, or William the Bastard (illegitimate, not because he was a nasty mongrel) who invaded England in 1066 and killed the rightful king Harold Godwinson, changing England, and English language, forever.

 

[Lector]

Men from the North, who settled in, or invaded France and married into local nobility. One of those descendants

That makes sence, i remember something about a king in normandy