English has dominated the world for centuries and has become the most succesful language in history. So why are Germanic languages called that? Germany is a shithole that had maybe 50 good years as an empire (60 if you count Hitler). Nobody even knows the etymology of German. I propose that the word Engloid replaces Germanic in all meanings from now on.
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Anonymous2009-02-14 11:25
>>1
Because it's derived from the language that the Saxons who emigrated to Britain spoke. As the Saxons were a germanic tribe with germanic customs and germanic language. But then it became extremely retarded due to the French influence.
Furthermore you are either a 6/10 troll or extremely uneducated.
The Holy Roman Empire of Germanic Nation withstand onslaught from east and west for 1000 years and Imperial Germany had a bigger economy than even the US at the time, with a good chance of winning WW1 if not for the November revolution.
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Anonymous2009-02-14 13:39
The HRE? They were even weaker than the Republic of Star Wars. They got buttraped by the friggin Swedes and French!
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Anonymous2009-02-14 14:35
>>3
You argument is invalid as Sweden got tiny parts of Mecklenburg after fighting for decades and France could never really establish the Rhine as border and while Napoleon abolished the institution of the HRE, he effectively made Germany more powerful by forming fewer, larger states.
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Anonymous2009-02-14 15:49
>>4
Not to mention the Danes when they tried to help out Lower Saxony, only to have their asses handed to them.
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Anonymous2009-02-15 7:59
/history/ is that way ->
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Anonymous2009-02-15 18:29
Well, Germans and Germany have always been the driving force behind european development, be it culture, language or literature so it seems only natural to simply refer to all these achievements as germanic.
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Anonymous2009-03-11 11:38
they see me trollan, they hatan, patrolan
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Anonymous2009-03-12 14:37
the are yellow!
everyone of them wears yellow hats! I dont know why, but i think germans just like that colour...
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Anonymous2009-03-12 15:47
>>2
learn history: the german generals convinced the emperor to let the socialdemocratic get the power, because germany had no chance to win the war. As the new government had to accept versailles, they were seen as weak traitors and the generals were fine. What you are saying is just what the nazis said, wiki "Stab-in-the-back legend"
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Anonymous2009-03-12 16:23
fuck off nazi cunts lol
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Anonymous2009-03-15 21:29
It should be "Americanoid" if anything. Ever since the Axis has caused the downfall of the British Empire in WW2, the UK has been nothing but just another European country full of fail. And a lot less populous and economically important than Germany.
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Anonymous2009-03-16 7:02
Germany has produced a great number of thinkers, noble prize winners and probably the most smartest scientists in the world like Einstein, Heisenberg to name just a few. so I think it's justified.
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Anonymous2009-03-16 9:03
English = Engels = Anglo-Saxons.
Angles. From Angeln.
Jutes. From Jutland.
Saxons. From Saxony.
Dumbass.
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Anonymous2009-03-16 9:50
>>14
Yes, these are fine Engloid peoples. What's your point?
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Anonymous2009-03-16 17:34
>>10
Because 2 million conscripted soldiers from the Ukraine wouldn't have contributed to a Central Power victory or a at least a ceasefire?
The Backstabbing was popularised by Hindenburg, not exactly a Nazi, because it's true.
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Anonymous2009-03-17 17:08
I agree with >>2
It's like saying Slavic languages now should be known as Russic, or Bantu languages should be known as Swahilic.
Germany is the name YOU Englishmen have given it. They themselves call it "Deutchland", the French call it "Allemagne". The Estonians actually call them Saxons.
Germanic is called "Germanic" because Julius Caesar decided to borrow some Gaulish word meaning 'neighbor' (cf. Irish 'comharsa', Welsh 'cymydog'; the "C"s sound like "K"s, and it's an easy switch back and forth from "K" to "G" historically.) to differentiate the Germanic peoples from the Celtic peoples. In Latin, it's 'Germanicus', meaning "Germanic", and 'Germania', meaning "Germany."
As Latin stuck around for a while, English eventually borrowed the words.
There. There's you're etymology of German. Even complete with research outside of Wikipedia.
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Anonymous2009-03-29 8:18
>English has dominated the world for centuries
oh rly, tell me more
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Anonymous2009-04-01 8:36
>>19
That's just one of many theories, one that was proposed by a German historian who was obsessed with Celtic history.
The mainstream academic consensus is that the origin of the word Germania is unknown.