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RE: Evening Contemplation of... Anguished English!

in #writing7 years ago

Some languages are really messed up in Google translate. Danish is pretty OK, but linguists have proposed that the nature of the English grammer owes more than until now recognised from old norse maybe even being Scandinavian in nature, it is a fact at least that Scandinavian languages are very well translated in Google.

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Yes, the Nordic languages do seem to come out quite accurately when translated online. I didn't know that, but I suppose it makes sense given that there are so many genetic commonalities between (particularly) Scotland/Ireland and Scandinavian peoples.

My wife recently completed one of those DNA analyses to discover elements of her background heritage. In the first phase, it returned "53% Anglo-Saxon", which in turn was broken down to being mostly Danish not English.