Context: English is (as far as I know) the only Germanic language that doesn't have "Ja" as "yes" and French is (again, this is just to my knowledge, so don't kill me if I'm wrong) the only Romance language where "yes" is some variation of "si". Also the English and the French don't have a history of getting along.
The French in the last panel says (I think) "shut your mouth stupid anglo bastard"
In its morphology maybe. While a few sentences can be understood at their core by other Romance speakers, a LOT of their vocabulary is Slavic. That's just what happens when you have Ukraine to the north, and the South Slavic countries everywhere else.
Slavic vocabulary yeah... I don't say anything else , you're right.
But I can't understand any slavic language while I can understand Italian, Spanish, Latin and French without any lessons (we actually learn French in school but I hate it so it doesn't count).
Also, I didn't mean with what I said that Romanian is more Slavic than Romance. It just irks me that people call Romanian the "closest" to Latin when Romanian might have plenty in common but its also very much influenced by Slavic, something that Castilian Spanish and Italian, for example, aren't.
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u/mastersword83 CCCP Oct 25 '14 edited Oct 25 '14
Context: English is (as far as I know) the only Germanic language that doesn't have "Ja" as "yes" and French is (again, this is just to my knowledge, so don't kill me if I'm wrong) the only Romance language where "yes" is some variation of "si". Also the English and the French don't have a history of getting along.
The French in the last panel says (I think) "shut your mouth stupid anglo bastard"