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[โ€“] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep. We're 50 countries in a trench coat. We have about a dozen dialects, many occasionally incomprehensible to others. My favorite example of this is "finnabouttabe."

[โ€“] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 10 months ago

The English language itself is like nine languages in a trench coat. It's mainly German/Dutch & French, with some sprinkling of Latin and various other romantic languages.