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   In article <7u9jejh7kbp22in5no2l0ep9uq6il4cf5q@4ax.com>,   
   hayesstw@telkomsa.net says...   
   >   
   > On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:27:41 +0200, Silvano   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Steve Hayes hat am 17.09.2024 um 07:19 geschrieben:   
   > took me to a page that had NO information about terms and conditions.   
   > >> The first stage was the invasion itself, and the subsequent control   
   > of   
   > >> England through ousting the local Anglo-Saxon nobility and replacing   
   > >> them with Norman-French ones, who built castles to control the   
   > >> populacve and put down resistance movements.   
   > >>   
   > >> The second phase was the Renaissance, which aroused, in the upper   
   > >> class, an admiration for Latin and Greek classical antiquity, and so   
   > >> pupils at public schools were taught Latin and Greek in their presumed   
   > >> classical forms (rather than the altered form perpetuated by medieval   
   > >> bureaucracy) and so classical Latin and Greek regarded as high-status   
   > >> languages and many consciously adopted neologisms were based on them,   
   > >> including such words as television, automobile and the like.   
   > >>   
   > >> Purists and nationalists of Germanic languages tried to plug more   
   > >> native-sounding words -- in Afrikaans, for example, television was   
   > >> "beeldradio", but eventually "televisie" won out.   
   > >>   
   > >> In English there was a battle in publishing, which hasn't yet been   
   > >> decided, between:   
   > >>   
   > >> foreword	preface   
   > >> handbook	manual   
   > >>   
   > >> and so on.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >Please note, however, that Chaucer wrote before the Renaissance began,   
   > >but his Middle English had already lost the Old English declination   
   > >system and most of the OE conjugation.   
   >   
   > Aye, but that had little to do with the incorporating words of Latin   
   > origin, either in addition to or are instead of the older Germanic   
   > words.   
      
     Chaucer's vocabulary  reflects his knowledge of both   
   French and Latin. Both necessary for his work at court.   
      
   https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhi   
   bns/chaucer/influences.html   
      
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