Charles-H.Schulz wrote:
Hello "JWK" :-) it's a rather impressive comment! I should add to this that languages share an historical burden. You mentioned German. German is a Germanic language with a Latin Grammar. This grammar has been imposed, and is not "native-german".
The traditional vocabulary of the analysis of German grammar comes from Latin, but the actual grammar is indeed native German, as can be seen by comparing it to the grammars of Germanic languages that are attested earlier, such as Gothic or Old English. The Germanic and Italic language families, after all, are all members of the Indo-European family, which also includes the Celtic, Baltic, Slavic, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Iranian, North-Indian, Hittite, Hurrian, and Tocharian familes, and a few others.
-- John W. Kennedy "Compact is becoming contract, Man only earns and pays." -- Charles Williams. "Bors to Elayne: On the King's Coins"
