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Friday, 25 March 2005, 04:42 PM


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The english language is very complex, perhaps one of the most complex that there is.  It has element that have been attached to it as a result of many invasions and conquests.  The language started as Galic, Latin was added by the Roman conquest.  In fact both the name of the Island and the capital city are derived from what the Romans called them.  After the withdrwal of the Romans during the deline of the empire, there were invasions and conquests be multiple wave of barbarians.  The thee major groups of invading barbarians were the Jutes, Anglos, and Saxons.  Then there were various the invasions by Vikings.  The language assorbed works and grammer from each of these people.  Then in the year 1066, Viking who had settled in  the Normany region of what is now France invaded and took England.  Hence the Norman and Saxons of Ivanhoe's and Robin Hood's time.  With them came more alterations to the language, but the lanuage kept changing.  English was considered a gutter talk verbal language until quite reciently  There was no officialy spelling or grammer for the language.  But it was not codified very well.  It is a rich language with its own beauty, but few even here are taught very much of it.  I don't think that anyone is familiar with the entire language.


By the way, does anyone know what the word British and the name of the land really means?    :lmao:











British = painted people.   Britain = land of the painted people.