English as a hybrid Romance-Germanic language: Revision history

14 February 2024

• curprev 16:1116:11, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 11,087 bytes +494‎ found the Dawkins video undo
• curprev 12:1012:10, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 10,593 bytes +523‎ +summarizing section Case for English being hybrid based on vocabulary undo
• curprev 10:2910:29, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 10,070 bytes 0‎ →‎Poorly identified data from Wikipedia undo
• curprev 10:2810:28, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 10,070 bytes +299‎ →‎Poorly identified data from Wikipedia undo
• curprev 10:2110:21, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 9,771 bytes +280‎ →‎Piechart based on AskOxford undo
• curprev 10:0110:01, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 9,491 bytes +31‎ →‎Poorly identified data from Wikipedia undo
• curprev 09:5909:59, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 9,460 bytes +203‎ separate data allegedly from Williams 1975 to a dedicated section undo
• curprev 09:2209:22, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 9,257 bytes −5‎ →‎Piechart based on AskOxford undo
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• curprev 09:1109:11, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 9,115 bytes +56‎ W1975: +link to chapter undo
• curprev 08:5908:59, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 9,059 bytes −376‎ →‎Williams 1975: drop "overall": not in the source (which is visible in Google Books) and does not make sense undo
• curprev 08:5608:56, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 9,435 bytes +35‎ →‎Williams 1975: +link to Wikidata undo
• curprev 08:1108:11, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 9,400 bytes +34‎ →‎Langfocus 2016 undo
• curprev 08:0908:09, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 9,366 bytes +185‎ fix AskOxford url; etc. undo
• curprev 07:5907:59, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 9,181 bytes −116‎ →‎Piechart based on AskOxford: drop "Neither of the figures cited in the Wikipedia article (Finkenstaedt 1973 or Williams 1975) matches the above chart": there is in fact a match except for the puzzling rounding up undo
• curprev 07:5607:56, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 9,297 bytes +246‎ rewrite the section of allegedly poorly identified pie chart (it in fact traces to AskOxford) undo
• curprev 07:4107:41, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 9,051 bytes +76‎ →‎Romance adjectives: +1 undo
• curprev 07:3607:36, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 8,975 bytes +92‎ →‎Romance adjectives: +FR undo
• curprev 07:3307:33, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 8,883 bytes 0‎ →‎Williams 1975: place the ref after the object referenced, the survey undo
• curprev 07:3207:32, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 8,883 bytes −5‎ →‎One poorly identified piechart: drop "with" (grammar) undo
• curprev 07:3107:31, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 8,888 bytes −10‎ avoid thumbs; copyedit undo
• curprev 07:3007:30, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 8,898 bytes +44‎ →‎One poorly identified piechart: decrease the nesting of Langfocus 2016: keep things flat as far as possible undo
• curprev 07:2907:29, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 8,854 bytes +560‎ →‎Williams 1975: +issues; copyedit undo
• curprev 07:2007:20, 14 February 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 8,294 bytes +187‎ move the point concerning bottom-ontology vocabulary to the top undo

3 January 2024

• curprev 15:4015:40, 3 January 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 8,107 bytes +336‎ +Romance adjectives undo

1 January 2024

• curprev 18:5018:50, 1 January 2024‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 7,771 bytes +42‎ authors undo

22 December 2023

• curprev 02:4602:46, 22 December 2023‎ Yuwash discuss contribs‎ 7,729 bytes +11‎ The pie chart found in Langfocus video is obviously the same one as the “poorly identified piechart”, thus moving it to the section, putting timestamp to the video undo Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• curprev 01:4601:46, 22 December 2023‎ Yuwash discuss contribs‎ 7,718 bytes +680‎ →‎One poorly identified piechart: Add Finkenstädt figures, clarify that the pie chart doesn’t match with either undo Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• curprev 00:2500:25, 22 December 2023‎ Yuwash discuss contribs‎ 7,038 bytes +398‎ →‎Williams 1975: Clarifying the citing situation from Simons, copied relevant data from w:Foreign-language_influences_in_English undo Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• curprev 00:1700:17, 22 December 2023‎ Yuwash discuss contribs‎ 6,640 bytes −45‎ →‎One poorly identified piechart: Better overview of the source situation. Make diagram less dominant undo

21 December 2023

• curprev 23:3823:38, 21 December 2023‎ Yuwash discuss contribs‎ 6,685 bytes +1,311‎ →‎Williams 1975: Data extracted from Williams’ book undo
• curprev 22:0022:00, 21 December 2023‎ Yuwash discuss contribs‎ 5,374 bytes +981‎ →‎One poorly identified piechart: Source note copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Word_origins undo Tag: Visual edit: Switched

14 March 2023

• curprev 19:1419:14, 14 March 2023‎ Dave Braunschweig discuss contribs‎ m 4,393 bytes 0‎ Dave Braunschweig moved page English as a hybrid Romance-Germanic language (Polansky) to English as a hybrid Romance-Germanic language: Rename undo

1 March 2023

• curprev 15:5615:56, 1 March 2023‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 4,393 bytes +153‎ →‎One poorly identified piechart undo
• curprev 15:4815:48, 1 March 2023‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 4,240 bytes +262‎ No edit summary undo Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• curprev 15:3715:37, 1 March 2023‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 3,978 bytes +400‎ No edit summary undo
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• curprev 14:5614:56, 1 March 2023‎ Dan Polansky discuss contribs‎ 3,095 bytes +3,095‎ New resource with "{{original research}} English appears to be a hybrid Romance-Germanic language. The degree to which English vocabulary is permeated with words stemming from Latin is remarkable. Anecdotally, when I (Dan Polansky) see or hear Italian, it reminds me of English; when I see or hear Danish, it reminds me of German. I saw Richard Dawkins opine about English in a similar way, in a video that I cannot quickly find. Langfocus 2016 has a pie chart indicating that English vocabu..."