No, old English is more Germanic.

Even middle English before chaucer was... Indecipherable by someone who only speaks modern English

or life is just this shitty

You realize that English has two root languages, right?

Romance languages = latin languages., which include Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian. Those languages are very closely related, I'm half Romanian so I've heard it spoken and been able to compare.

spanish and german?

Latin and German

Though, Germanic roots came first.

German itself was also heavily influenced by Latin.

Especially christianity.

And yet it's not considered a Latin language...

Their history is basically Islam but in northern europe with christianity.

damn even in my guessing I'm half right...motherfucker

I just read that Latin was dominant in the western roman empire, as opposed to Greek in the eastern empire.

migga you read

love it bro!

what do u mean @Xychotic

I mean German history is so heavily influenced by religious orthodoxy, for a long time, they were little better than a christian state.

even the socialism?

No, the extreme socialism was an after effect of WWI.

That they were open to it can't really be laid at the feet of christianity.

Dude, the reconstruction of Germany after WWII... they really don't teach you about that shit in school.

Super interesting stuff

I always wondered about it, and figured that the US had a lot to do with it. Apparently we, along with the UK, stole as much of their intellectual property as humanly possible lol. It's probably the reason why Western Europe is always considered much better off than Eastern Europe.

We?

I meant the US

my bad

We didn't steal it.

They lost a war.

plundered it. same shit

We *plundered* it.

No.

We fought and bled in that war.

we still didnt invent the stuff my dude

They initiated the war. They put their everything on the table in that gamble and lost.

so it was stealing

I won't dispute that @Xychotic

not like it was neccesarily "evil" of us to do that. we still did tho

I don't buy into this "stealing" narrative.

not really a narritive

Moral ramifications become really blurry when you get into who the instigator is, and the chain of "one transgression justifying another"