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I hate to disagree with Randall on anything ever, but the English inflections came from German. A quick look at Old English [https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/engol/10#grammar_1058 verb conjugation] shows that it's quite similar to modern German. Latin didn't really start to affect English until the Norman Invasion, after which the church wrote Latin and the government wrote French. Since English wasn't written for over a century, most endings were dropped but none were added. --[[User:Jim ocoee|Jim ocoee]] ([[User talk:Jim ocoee|talk]]) 08:12, 30 June 2021 (UTC) | I hate to disagree with Randall on anything ever, but the English inflections came from German. A quick look at Old English [https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/engol/10#grammar_1058 verb conjugation] shows that it's quite similar to modern German. Latin didn't really start to affect English until the Norman Invasion, after which the church wrote Latin and the government wrote French. Since English wasn't written for over a century, most endings were dropped but none were added. --[[User:Jim ocoee|Jim ocoee]] ([[User talk:Jim ocoee|talk]]) 08:12, 30 June 2021 (UTC) | ||
− | :English inflection didn't "come from" German, which didn't exist when English split from the other Germanic languages. It was present from proto-Germanic, the ancestor language of Old Norse, Old English, Old Gothic, etc. I believe you meant that English didn't get its inflections from | + | :English inflection didn't "come from" German, which didn't exist when English split from the other Germanic languages. It was present from proto-Germanic, the ancestor language of Old Norse, Old English, Old Gothic, etc. I believe you meant that English didn't get its inflections from German, which is quite true, but Randall and this article never said that it did.[[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 13:54, 6 February 2022 (UTC) |