>>15946622I've never had a hangover even when I drunk a whole vodka bottle. Typical weakling.
>>15946636The way the two languages evolved makes total sense considering the history and culture of the two nations. With the norman rule that imposed French on England it brought many foreign words that replaced native English ones, and the English do not have an as strict language culture as we have it so they tolerated the change of meanings. So you have "cattle" replacing the native English "fee", and the original word taking up a whole new meaning while the german "vieh" stays the same for example
I mean I know some counter-examples where the opposite occured and English was the more conservative one of the two, but I can't think of them at the moment.
Grammatically High German is also out of all the Germanic languages, not just English, the second most conservative after Icelandic.
Half of the notorious long german words are also all just neologisms created by a few intellectuals to replace foreign words, like "Abstand" ("off-stand") instead of "Distanz".
