natalieironside:

stardustandspite:

natalieironside:

natalieironside:

Not every Germanic language is a kind of German.  Calling Yiddish or Luxembourgisch or what have you “German dialects” is like calling Swedish “the Scandinavian dialect of German.”

“She’s an Anglophone, she speaks that fucked-up German they have in Britain.”

While your point is valid, “ that fucked-up German they have in Britain.“  is by far the best definition of English out there.

yeah

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