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Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leaders
(www.irishstar.com)
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Wait until he learns that English is a hybrid of Latin, French and German.
We're gonna be here a while…
And Viking/Danish. And Celtic.
Norse. And it's more similar to modern Icelandic than anything else, perhaps most closely followed by (distant second place) Norwegian.
and Celtic, Greek, Dutch, Turkish, various Indian/South Asian languages and Arabic.
Not to mention the "French" and "German" you mention were actually Saxon and Norman which became those languages.
Out of curiosity what Turkish words and Indian words are common in english
I was curious, as well, and discovered we weren't the first.
Turkish origin words (baklava is common).
Here's a list of lists for various Indian languages (guru is common).
aryan, bugger, coffee, doodle, horde, kiosk, lackey, mammoth, ottoman, pillar, quiver, sofa, turquoise, yogurt.
Bungalow, pyjamas, jungle, loot, shampoo
English is the most duct-taped together language, so many languages who affected it deeply
I'm sorry, but if you truly believe that, then you must have a very limited knowledge of the languages of the world. English is not very unusual in this regard.