sprior
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ORIGINAL: sprior So, after being over run by Angles, Saxons and Jutes this is a surprise? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8588263/Half-of-Britons-have-German-blood.html Have to figure part of it was due to Norman raping and pillaging. I guess it depends on which group of northern raiders founded them. The Normans were just an over lay at the top, there was no mass Norman/French migration after 1066 Not to mention they were Viking not German stock. Guten Tag, sehr esteemed readers! Und willkommen to today’s lesson. Perhaps Sie haben already mastered die so-called “Franglais”. Sie know – der mixture of Französisch und English. Well, jetzt it’s time for “Denglish” – ein cocktail of English and Deutsch. Or at least it should be. In fact, an awful lot of us should be speaking Denglish already because, according to the Hamburg-based magazine Der Spiegel, about half the British population is basically German. For many, this may be a bitter pill to swallow. Followers of the England football team will no longer be able to chant, “If it wasn’t for us Brits, You’d be Krauts” at French fans. Now they will have to sing, “If it wasn’t for us Brits, you would have remained under the domination of the German dictatorship, as opposed to being liberated by a genetically identical but politically emancipated people from across the Channel”. Much less catchy. It’s either that or, “If it wasn’t for us Krauts, you’d be Krauts”, which I’m guessing is not the message the angelic choristers on the England team’s terraces are after. But there is no denying it. Once the Romans packed it in at the beginning of the 5th century, a wave of Germanic immigrants flooded these shores. Many, apparently, came without visas and the proper work permits. But they were carrying large swords.
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