Common words across languages evolved more or less without changing. Take the word "No" for example. No, non, nein, nyet, etc.
Does this explain why the French can't even say thank you without asking for mercy? I used to think it was a meme but I recently learned the French really do say mercy as their word for "Thanks". How did this happen? Are the French the original beta males?
>Anti-Americanism one of the most low test opinions out there desu, along with Anti-Christianity, Pro-Communism, and Pro-Islam
Julian Davis
Italians say grazie and spaniards gracias. Do you think thanking someone has anything to do with grace?
Austin Martin
It is related to the English word mercy. something to do with wages, fees derived from merchandise bribe is in the mix for both english and french version
Jaxson King
mercy comes from merci, like 70% of english words. dumb fucking ameriblob
Joshua Jenkins
>Anti-Americanism >one of the most low test opinions out there desu
wrong being anti-american is only right thing, cuck
Connor Bailey
"Mercy" in english comes from french you retard, it's not a germanic word. French is a romance language your uncultured swine, the only reason english have "mercy" in their vocabulary is because french ruled their asses and cucked them for 400 years straight which resulted in the current gang bang that their language is.
"Merci" comes from a family of latin words relatives to comMERCE and MERChants, the current sense you gives to "mercy" came much later.
Landon Long
MASSIVE faggots, you can't even imagine
Gabriel Gonzalez
whatever
I mostly feel bad for you, since you're the one who has to live with the wrong opinion while I can enjoy having the correct one
Blake Hughes
English is more of a french 1.5 than it as a germanic language
IIRC almost two thirds of it's vocabulary originate from french
Luis Brooks
>Merci (mot) >vient étymologiquement du latin mercedem, accusatif singulier de merces qui dénote aussi bien le « salaire », la « récompense », la « solde » que « l’intérêt » ou le « rapport ».
>En bas latin, le mot s’enrichit de significations supplémentaires comme le « prix », la « faveur », et la « grâce qu’on accorde à quelqu’un en l’épargnant », d’où par extension la « rançon » payée pour le rachat d’un otage. C'est de cette dernière acception que naîtra le nom de l'Ordre de Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci.
Merci (thanks) et La Mercie (which turned into the english word The Mercy) do have the same latin root. One means "I'm grateful" and the other means "the act of doing me a favor / sparing me in exchange of my gratefulness". But despite both coming from the same latin word, Merci doesn't come from Mercie
Sebastian Cooper
Make Etymology Great Again.
Eli James
spot on
Lincoln Phillips
>"Mercy" in english comes from french you retard, it's not a germanic word That's what I thought
Tyler Harris
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Nicholas Flores
Francophobic Americans who know nothing, just like always.
mfw
Zachary Baker
see
Blake Butler
Hello Raffik, how you doin ?
Daniel Edwards
Go surrender or something, Pierre lmao
Noah Roberts
Don't try witty humour, you're not english nor australian.