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r/dankmemes • u/Teboski78 ☣️ • Jul 20 '25
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English is a Germanic language that was implanted with a bunch of romance vocabulary. But even the French parts of English are heavily anglicized.
Hence why old English is easier for Germans & Icelandics to understand than it is for modern English speakers.
31 u/BockTheMan Jul 20 '25 Well they've should've kicked Norman out. 31 u/Teboski78 ☣️ Jul 20 '25 They tried. William burned down villages when they wouldn’t cooperate 10 u/Maxcharged Jul 20 '25 They really needed to do something about the Harry guy who Harried all over the north. (If joke is too ‘inside baseball’, google “Harrying of the North”) 6 u/Kerouwacky Jul 21 '25 My favourite part of the Harrying of the North was when Harry shouted "It's Harryin' time!" and then harried all over the north
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Well they've should've kicked Norman out.
31 u/Teboski78 ☣️ Jul 20 '25 They tried. William burned down villages when they wouldn’t cooperate 10 u/Maxcharged Jul 20 '25 They really needed to do something about the Harry guy who Harried all over the north. (If joke is too ‘inside baseball’, google “Harrying of the North”) 6 u/Kerouwacky Jul 21 '25 My favourite part of the Harrying of the North was when Harry shouted "It's Harryin' time!" and then harried all over the north
They tried. William burned down villages when they wouldn’t cooperate
10 u/Maxcharged Jul 20 '25 They really needed to do something about the Harry guy who Harried all over the north. (If joke is too ‘inside baseball’, google “Harrying of the North”) 6 u/Kerouwacky Jul 21 '25 My favourite part of the Harrying of the North was when Harry shouted "It's Harryin' time!" and then harried all over the north
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They really needed to do something about the Harry guy who Harried all over the north.
(If joke is too ‘inside baseball’, google “Harrying of the North”)
6 u/Kerouwacky Jul 21 '25 My favourite part of the Harrying of the North was when Harry shouted "It's Harryin' time!" and then harried all over the north
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My favourite part of the Harrying of the North was when Harry shouted "It's Harryin' time!" and then harried all over the north
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u/Teboski78 ☣️ Jul 20 '25 edited Jul 20 '25
English is a Germanic language that was implanted with a bunch of romance vocabulary. But even the French parts of English are heavily anglicized.
Hence why old English is easier for Germans & Icelandics to understand than it is for modern English speakers.