• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I wonder how much of that is due to french and how much from german/saxon dialects. French love mute consonants and wildly different vowel sounds.

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      1 year ago

      It’s all of the above and then some. A good read on the subject is John McWhorter’s “Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue.” It’s intended for a non-technical/popular audience and doesn’t get too deep into the weeds so you don’t need a degree in linguistics to follow it.