Comment by dgellow
5 days ago
given English evolved from Norman French, it's maybe just a local variation than a true invention? fr-GB feels more correct :)
5 days ago
given English evolved from Norman French, it's maybe just a local variation than a true invention? fr-GB feels more correct :)
This is more or less completely false. English has an unusually high number of loan words from French (on the order of 10k or so, I think), and this has made the language less Germanic than its historical origins would suggest. But English existed before Norman French arrived in the British Isles, and is still at heart a Germanic language.
Did you actually think I wanted fr-GB to replace en-GB?
It was a joke based on the Norman French references from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English
I've seen more absurd ideas :)
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