Originally Posted by
David Jamieson
English is Germanic as a base, but uses many other languages as well to bring itself to what it is now. Latin is one of them, but you are correct, English is not based in Latin. It's more of a mish mash with mostly a german based.
I cannot conscientiously disagree with anything you wrote here. But for the fun of it I will channel my inner pedant and vehemently quibble with your choice of words. English is solidly germanic with only lexical borrowings from other tongues. For that matter much of late Latin was heavily influenced by Germanic languages and much of the supposedly romance influence on Germanic tongues is in words with germanic roots. Saloon/salon sounds French until you lool at the etymology.
What this has to do with Cantonese kinship terms I'm not too sure. But carry on.
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