why isn’t french, the literal language of the francs, the current LINGUA FRANCA? really makes one ponder
Why isn’t french, the literal language of the francs, the current LINGUA FRANCA? really makes one ponder
Luke Wright
Carson Sanchez
the franks spoke plattdeutsch
Joseph Wright
Because it's hard as balls.
English was much easier for me.
Carter Garcia
It's not really the language of the ancient frank per say.
French only started to be a defined as a language of its own in the 8th century, while the frankish kingdom date back to the 5th century
Austin Martin
The Dutch language is directly descendant from Frankish, who spoke old Dutch.
Cooper Taylor
>The Merovingian kings responsible for the conquest of Gaul are thought to have had Salian ancestry, although they also clearly had connections with the Ripuarians
>The Salian Frankish language is ancestral to the modern family of Low Franconian dialects (including Dutch).
en.wikipedia.org
> Franconian, Low Frankish (Dutch: Nederfrankisch, German: Niederfränkisch, French: Bas Francique) are a group of several West Germanic languages spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium (Flanders), in the Nord department of France, in western Germany (Lower Rhine), as well as in Suriname, South Africa and Namibia that originally descended from Old Frankish.
en.wikipedia.org
Jose Howard
>The Frankish language, also "Old Frankish", was the language of the Franks. It is a West Germanic language and was spoken in Merovingian times, preceding the 7th century. Austrasia formed the northeastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks (Francia), comprising parts of the territory of present-day western Germany, eastern and northern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The Franks first established themselves in the Netherlands and Flanders before they started to fight their way down south and east. The language had a significant impact on Old French. It evolved into Old Dutch in the north and it was replaced step by step by the langues d'oïl in the south.
Joshua Martin
Because it's a dumb fucking language from a smelly dumb high-context culture.
English is of low-context culture, so there is clear meaning in the language itself. Other viable languages from low-context cultures would be Dutch, German, and unironically Norwegian.
Jaxson Gutierrez
English is easy to learn, French isn't. Also Anglos have succeeded to sell their culture & language via movies. (thanks to Hollywood, ayh shubboze.)
Matthew King
The Benelux has always been the heart of Europe, ever since the Italians loosened their grip.
And there are no signs of change.
Jace Reyes
French is a disgusting moon language, that's why.
Hudson Anderson
Franks spoke frankish and started speaking gallo-roman only several centuries after conquering Gaul.
And the English language became the new lingua franca as the French lost influence and power since Waterloo until they lost all relevance in 1940.
Xavier Anderson
Because the French did empire wrong. The Brits may have lost control over their bastard settler state children, but it ensured that their culture would only grow in prominence.
Noah Turner
English would have been the main language either way due to gawd's chosen cunt America
even German was closer to being lingua franca than French ever was since the vote for USA's language was only a very close win for English afaik
Gavin Harris
The British only grew in power after we conquered them.
Being conquered by us is the greatest blessing we can bestow upon a country.
Jason Torres
He's actually right for once
Colton Nelson
>why isn’t french, the literal language of the francs, the current LINGUA FRANCA? really makes one ponder
Because of the appearence of a superpower that speaks another language (I'm talking about USA)
Nolan Bell
German was never even remotely a contender for language of the United States. The Midwest in that era was poorly organized and sparsely populated. The areas where all the capital and political power were located (the Atlantic Coast and to a lesser extent the Deep South) were fully Anglo in persuasion.
Justin Parker
it's just what I heard in a youtube video, that the US had a language vote and German lost only by a few votes
nice final two digits by the way
James Gutierrez
fuck off
Adam Perry
There's never been a 'vote'. English has only been the de facto language. Its usage has never been enshrined in law or anything,
Ryan Campbell
*takes welfare*
Ryan Martin
>mfw Gallo-Roman serfs near me
Kayden Baker
True. Portugal is the worst colonizer.
Michael Bell
americans had a massive territory scarcely populated by peaceful native, full of resources and with an evergrowing population, protected by two largest bodies of water on earth.
It's actually surprising how bad you're country is in comparison to what he could have achieved.
Jose Baker
>peaceful native
Man, is this what they really teach in French schools?
*Some* tribes favored diplomacy over military action, but most of them were no less bloodthirsty than the white man. What made the conquest of the Americas possible was their near-extinction from plagues brought by Spanish explorers in the 1400s and 1500s.
Caleb Reed
they were relatively peaceful until you tried to fuck them over, we were in the americas too and didn't have problems with them
Jacob Reed
Uhh, what? You fought several small-scale wars, notably against the Iroquis, in order to control the fur trade in North America.
Lucas Russell
>accident of birth means I speak, natively, the lingua franca
Feels fucking good!
Cameron Baker
I really enjoy this meme
Gabriel Reed
he's right though don't pretend it was any hard to kill shitskins
they had spears and bows and you had guns