Why is English not considered a Romance “language if ~60-80% of words come from latin?
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I don’t know where that stat comes from, but the Latin words (and the French ones) got imported into an existing Germanic language. That doesn’t change the origin of the language. The *grammar* and structure of English is still very Germanic, which tells us more about what family tree it’s part of than just the amount of loanwords over the centuries
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