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   From: walker@btinternet.com   
      
   "Custos Custodum"  wrote in message   
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   > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:23:16 -0000, "Walker"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>To Fitlikeman. Sorry about top posting, but Cumbric never really "died",   
   >>many Cumbric words exist in Scots and even standard English, as well as in   
   >>place-names.   
   >   
   > You'd be hard pressed to list more than a hundred that aren't place   
   > names or dialect.   
   Complete rubbish!   
   >   
   >> Also English is nothing like Anglo-Saxon/Old   
   >>English/Platdeutsch or whatever else you want to call it.   
   >   
   > Nonsense. You're frothing again. The similarities are there to see for   
   > anyone who takes the trouble to learn a little about both languages.   
   Complete rubbish!   
   >> Ever noticed the   
   >>prelieferation of Celtic auxillaries in English?   
   >   
   > What proliferation? (I assume that's what you meant). If you are   
   > talking about 'progressive' tenses (I believe linguists call them   
   > 'aspects' nowadays) then yes, it is possible, even probable, that they   
   > are due to Celtic influence, as English is unique among the Germanic   
   > languages in possessing such a feature.   
   This response (antwort) negates your claim that English grammar and   
   vocabulary is similar to that of German. What absolute rubbish you write!   
   >   
   >>Is that how Germans speak   
   >>German?   
   >   
   > No, but German verbs closely mirror their English counterparts in most   
   > other respects. Hardly surprising, given their common ancestry.   
   >   
   Complete rubbish!   
   >   
      
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