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To: kearnyirish2; SunkenCiv
Actually Keaerney, there is denying that statement the Roman Empire fell when too many people inside it weren’t “Roman” in any sense of the word - regardless of “citizenship”.

Rome fell, or rather the Western Roman Empire fell due to:

Extension of citizenship was continuously done throughout Roman history -- from Alba Longa to the Social Wars (extending citizenship to all of Italy), then to Hispania and Cisalpine Gaul, then under Caracalla to all of the Empire (expanding the tax base)

English might be at its base a Germanic languages, but 70% of its words are French/ Latin/Italian/Spanish in origin. And English grammar follows the French fashion of dropping of cases -- if it was really a Germanic language it would have 5 cases instead of 1 today (Nominative, Genitive, Locative,Dativa,Vocative)

So English IS descended from Latin to a large extent as well as from proto-German (I call it a bastard language :)

22 posted on 04/04/2018 6:55:51 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos

It is a Germanic language from the Anglo-Saxons, with some Latin grammar infused in it. While it is a “bastard language” (which makes it very difficult to learn), it is very different from a Romance language.


23 posted on 04/04/2018 8:56:33 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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