11th June 2009, 3:18 AM
Hmm... What interests me is just how much cross-inheritance english has with so many other languages. Sure it's germanic, but it's also pretty danged heavily romantic at this point. It's like languages are, memetically speaking, at a permanent bacterial state of evolution.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)