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- My MVPs: Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, Home Assistant, Immich
Mildly reclusive American living in Europe.
Tends to get truculent about movies, music, the Oxford comma, and politics


Well, the aristocracy didn’t just learn English overnight. The transition of official use over about 200 years shows them becoming more and more accepting and comfortable with it.
Yes, and because of that there was a lot of interaction and blending, right up to the point where trials were required to be performed in English in the mid-14th century, then in the 15th everything was switched to English. The Peterborough Chronicle perfectly demonstrates the transition from Old English to Middle. It was written over about a hundred years (11th to 12th Century) and gradually starts incorporating French vocabulary and dropping old Germanic grammar.
There were a lot of native French speakers in England at that time, so a bunch of normalizing like what happened a couple hundred years earlier with the Norse meeting Anglo-Saxons


I guess you don’t speak German, as those are now German words that you might not be able to guess their meanings


You don’t want to go down that road.
“beamer, handy, mobbing, shooting…”
They do give tickets even in states with no inspections (fix-it tickets).