Uncleftish Beholding (1989)
If you&#x27;ve ever wondered why English is described as a Germanic language, despite so much obvious French and Latin influence, this is why.  Something like this is just not possible with (almost) 100% French&#x2F;Latin vocabulary.  The way thoughts are stacked up and laid out is, at heart, done like in the other Germanic tongues. In contradiction, the Latinate superstrate remains, to the present, an imported affectation, frequently incompletely comprehended by normally fluent audiences.