alongalone · M
Its giving things names. The ones that stick gets a new merkin
KiwiBird · 36-40, F
AI ChatGPT...Who Invented English?
No single person invented English — it evolved over thousands of years from several earlier languages.
Here’s the simple version:
1. Started with the Anglo-Saxons (5th–7th century)
English began when three Germanic tribes invaded Britain:
Angles
Saxons
Jutes
They brought their languages, which blended into Old English.
2. Shaped by Vikings (8th–11th century)
Norse-speaking Vikings settled in Britain and mixed their language with Old English.
This added words like sky, knife, egg, window.
3. Transformed by the Normans (from 1066)
The Normans spoke a type of French.
After they conquered England, French heavily influenced English — especially words about law, government, and culture.
4. Evolved into Middle → Modern English
Over time, the language kept changing naturally.
Writers like Chaucer and later Shakespeare used forms of English that eventually became what we recognise today.
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So who “invented” English?
No one.
It’s the result of:
Germanic tribes
Norse influence
Norman French
Centuries of gradual evolution
Think of English as a big soup made from many languages over 1,600+ years.
Here’s the simple version:
1. Started with the Anglo-Saxons (5th–7th century)
English began when three Germanic tribes invaded Britain:
Angles
Saxons
Jutes
They brought their languages, which blended into Old English.
2. Shaped by Vikings (8th–11th century)
Norse-speaking Vikings settled in Britain and mixed their language with Old English.
This added words like sky, knife, egg, window.
3. Transformed by the Normans (from 1066)
The Normans spoke a type of French.
After they conquered England, French heavily influenced English — especially words about law, government, and culture.
4. Evolved into Middle → Modern English
Over time, the language kept changing naturally.
Writers like Chaucer and later Shakespeare used forms of English that eventually became what we recognise today.
---
So who “invented” English?
No one.
It’s the result of:
Germanic tribes
Norse influence
Norman French
Centuries of gradual evolution
Think of English as a big soup made from many languages over 1,600+ years.
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TheSirfurryanimalWales · 61-69, M
@Yulianna Do you seriously believe the populations of the world will line up to get their vaccination and then accept not getting their life back?
I don’t.You may be happy to spend the rest of your life living in lockdown but I don’t think everyone is.
If all I have to look forward to is staring at the same four walls until I die then I think I might as well call it a day now.
I don’t.You may be happy to spend the rest of your life living in lockdown but I don’t think everyone is.
If all I have to look forward to is staring at the same four walls until I die then I think I might as well call it a day now.
Yulianna · 26-30, F
@TheSirfurryanimalWales you are too extreme... vaccination may well ease restrictions, but for now they cannot lift them totally. because no one knows!
most likely scenario, it will be like flu, new vaccine every year, 30k deaths a year, and people paying more attention to public hygiene.
the more the idiots ignore the laws, the longer the problem.
most likely scenario, it will be like flu, new vaccine every year, 30k deaths a year, and people paying more attention to public hygiene.
the more the idiots ignore the laws, the longer the problem.
@Aidan yea that is interesting because our language sounds very little like most others, my native language sounds so much like a few other languages that I can hear thoes languages and get the gist but with english very few words are like spanish and spanish is the closest i have heard.
@basilfawlty89 yes and I wonder what even is anglo saxan
basilfawlty89 · 36-40, M
@Girlyfriendcollecting Angles and Saxons were West Germanic people who settled England in the 5th to 7th century from Germanic urheimat, likely near Germany and Denmark. They intermingled with the native Celtic people. Then there was a Viking invasion at a stage to and then a Norman French invasion. Those all kinda intermingled to form the English people.
That said it's important to remember English isn't the same as British. British people include Celtic people like the Scots, Welsh and Cornish.
That said it's important to remember English isn't the same as British. British people include Celtic people like the Scots, Welsh and Cornish.
Yulianna · 26-30, F
it was found in a bottle... once the cork was pulled and the air got to it, its spores spread like wildfowl across the globe and seeded the innocent brains of the mute happy apes, who then started arguing so much that some of them jumped out of their trees and walked away, so becoming the first homo erectus.
from there, it was all downhill.
(edit for typo)
from there, it was all downhill.
(edit for typo)
SomeMichGuy · M
Most natural languages are not invented by a specific person, but grow and change as different groups of people interact, move, etc.
You should check out a "language tree" graphic to get an idea of how linguists have pieced together the interrelationships of various languages.
You should check out a "language tree" graphic to get an idea of how linguists have pieced together the interrelationships of various languages.
@SomeMichGuy thank you thats very informitive
SomeMichGuy · M
TheSirfurryanimalWales · 61-69, M
KiwiBird · 36-40, F
It started off as a grunt..
Olde English emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English today is a constantly changing language that has been influenced by a plethora of different cultures and languages, such as Latin, French, Dutch, and Afrikaans.
Olde English emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English today is a constantly changing language that has been influenced by a plethora of different cultures and languages, such as Latin, French, Dutch, and Afrikaans.
wetncthru · F
Perhaps it was the inhabitants of the group of islands on the western side of La Manche?
MOONAMONA86 · 36-40, F
Me I did , it’s going to be the universal language
MOONAMONA86 · 36-40, F
I reckon English was created by Americans and Australians
GERRI · 51-55, F
The King
olderguy2016 · 70-79, M
Not me