Rank from most to least valuable England's following contributions to the world

**dperucca** · 12-05-2019, 11:31 PM

All the above +John Locke

**Jacques de Imbelloni** · 12-05-2019, 11:31 PM

Railways

**Tooting Carmen** · 12-05-2019, 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by Jolsonaro

English Language, certainly. Thanks God, it is an easy language. Imagine if the universal language was something like Polish or Finnish...

English isn't that easy. Unlike Spanish and Italian, it is very unphonetic.

**Tooting Carmen** · 12-05-2019, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by Latinus

English language, the first, football, the last.

As a Brazilian, you have just committed heresy.

**Tooting Carmen** · 12-05-2019, 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by Jacques de Imbelloni

Railways

Still one of my favourite cartoons.

**Mingle** · 12-05-2019, 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by Token

Peterski is.

No he's not. Saying that the French invented modern English means that English was shaped by the French to reach its current state. Peterski never said that English is a Romance language, only that it has been heavily altered by a Romance language to reach its current status, which is very far removed from Old English.

**bandeirante** · 12-06-2019, 12:53 AM

Originally Posted by ♥ Lily ♥

The Viking Northman settlers in Normandy ('Normans') learned to speak a dialect of French before the Norman Conquest of Engeland in 1066.

However the grammar structure and base of English is Germanic.

The French have a very different grammar structure to English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...nd_discoveries

latin vocabulary

**Tooting Carmen** · 11-17-2020, 12:17 AM

Originally Posted by Mingle

No he's not. Saying that the French invented modern English means that English was shaped by the French to reach its current state. Peterski never said that English is a Romance language, only that it has been heavily altered by a Romance language to reach its current status, which is very far removed from Old English.

So what? French itself has a lot of Celtic and Germanic influences, Romanian is full of Slavic influences, yet both are still clearly part of the Romance group.