Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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cosit's from the Norse. Same with the lovely Dundonian/Fife substitution of 'jamp' for 'jumped.'
(, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 19:14, 1 reply)
Norse, but also maybe Friesk or some other such Germanic languageI'm learning Dutch at the moment (don't ask...) and "kennen" means "to understand" and there are a number of other similarities.
My girlfriend was listening to two blokes speaking some heavily colloquial form of scots English, almost bordering on Scots itself, and for a moment she swore they were speaking Dutch - she could even understand what they were saying.
English's closest relative is Scots, then it's Friesk (and then I think Dutch), it just so happens that even after 1000 years the English north of the border has less French than that south of it.
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the english cognate ofken/kennen/kunnen/koennen etc is can
makes sense when you think "I know how to do something" is the same as "I can do something".
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 22:52,
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