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[luthien13]

"Helaas" is Dutch for "alas". How awesome is that?

Why exactly has English changed so much from O.E. whilst the other Teutonic languages appear not to have changed so much? I mean, that can't all be the Normans, can it? They can't shoulder all that blame. Were our ancestors just lazier than other people or what

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[azinazelle]

the big mystery in life. maybe we are lazy or maybe English was destined to become the big mixed up shifty hodgepodge language it is today. I leave it to you to discover the answer to this great mystery.

[3scoremiles_10]

It may have something to do with the fact that Baldrick was allowed to tamper with Dr Samuel Johnson's Dictionary.

Baldrick: "C... big blue wobbly thing mermaids live in."

Blackadder: *headdesk*