English, asked by rubina7, 1 year ago

why ANGLO SAXON not like modern english

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Answered by swapnilsnikam15
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Take a look at the history of Great Britain, which is now officially named the UK. English has had lots of language contacts both as a substrate language ( the one which is supressed by another language) and a superstrate one ( the one that supresses another language) mingling, mixing, merging with Celtic, Latin, Old French, Scandinavian languages that it would have been ( and it was) impossible to preserve all the Germanic features of Anglo- Saxon. But do you honestly want to have three genders and four cases for nouns, adjectives and articles; strong and weak verbs and adjectives and a runic alphabet? Look at German, in which both definite and infefinite articles have three genders, four cases and two numbers! Mark Twain said once, “ Let a candidate to an asylum memorise all the cases and numbers of mein lieber freund ( my beloved friend) and he is sure to be elected. It's better not to have friends in Germany than to make so much fuss of them.”
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