Posted on 11/29/2005 5:25:04 AM PST by conservativecorner
You can research this fact for yourself, but here's one example:
How French Has Influenced English
The English language has been shaped by a number of other languages over the centuries, and many English speakers know that Latin and German were two of the most important. What many people don't realize is how much the French language has influenced English.
Without going into too much detail, I want to give a little bit of background about the other languages which shaped English. It was born out of the dialects of three German tribes (Angles, Jutes, and Saxons) who settled in Britain in about 450 A.D. This group of dialects forms what linguists refer to as Anglo-Saxon, and at some point this language developed into what we know as Old English. This Germanic base was influenced in varying degrees by Celtic, Latin, and Scandinavian (Old Norse) - the languages spoken by invading armies.
http://french.about.com/library/bl-frenchinenglish.htm
And here's another more scholarly text on the subject, with references listed for further research. In any event, it is quite clear that neither Mexico, Spain, nor the Spanish language have had little to no effect on modern English, other than some new words and/or slang.
THE INFLUENCE OF FRENCH ON ENGLISH IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
BACKGROUND
For a greater portion of the Middle English period (M.E.) French (Fr.) was the governing vernacular of England. It was the language of the ruling elite, many of which spoke little if any English, the language of the court, and the language in which polite literature was written. Hence, studies using the Oxford English Dictionary revealing that Fr. was the primary source of loans outnumbering Latin, the second largest source, four to one should hardly surprise us. As Baugh points out “where two languages exist side by side for a long time and the relations of the people speaking them are as intimate as they were in England, a considerable transference of words” is “inevitable.”
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http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/courses/6362Jurcic1.htm
Those denying these facts are somehow profiting from this invasion.
If you get a chance to read the links at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530375/posts?page=520#520
(I know they are long)
You will have your eyes open even wider as to who the networks hubs are.
Exactly my thoughts.
But they require us to keep sending them tax money to pay for these benefits for these poor people doing the jobs Americans wont do...taxation without representation rings a bell to me...
And you are both right.
You are a little off with the blame.
I 'do' blame Bush for not being more open as to what is going on. It is absolutely unfair to keep us in the dark with information but expect us to be vigilent in helping with the war on terror.
Info on the conpirators can be found in these links. The real criminals of facilitating the illegal aliens migration can be found in the ones that profit from the travel and tourism industry.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530375/posts?page=520#520
Of course than you have the gateway communities that profit from grant services, businesses that get cheap labor, the list goes on.
Many people have a hard time seeing 'the angle' because it is very difficult to imagine a politician committed to following the law, removing corruption, and improving the United States of America and keeping it the Leader in Equality, Freedom, and Free Trade.
They know that Rules don't mean anything, only power and wealth.
They know that the politicians they support are guilty of every sin imaginable.
They themselves rationalize every lie they tell, and see the end goal as wealth and power that allows one to ignore the law.
They can't imagine anyone resolving their issues any other way.
I will tell you his angle.
He wants to put terrorists where they will never harm anyone again.
He wants ALL MEN who would stand up and work for the food on their family table, rather than take handouts from the government kitty, to have that ability. Instead of being in jail or dead attempting to escape poverty and corruption, while their children are then abandoned to the streets and used to perpetuate the corruption and filth.
This nation became GREAT by taking in the GREATNESS of MANKIND.
Our FOUNDING FATHERS were FRENCH, or RUSSIAN, or INDIAN, or IRISH, or BRITISH, or DANISH, or AFRICAN, or..... So were those who flock to these shores for the promise of a chance to OPENLY COMPETE FOR THE BEST OF LIFE.
Many want the BORDER CLOSED. And RIGHT NOW.
They show their ignorance. They show less involvement in gaining the actual truth than those illegals they want to keep out.
It is a fact that we have quite a cross-border employment contingent.
Many Americans have business in Canada. Many Canadians have business in America.
If you CLOSE the borders, you have a serious financial collapse from various sectors of the involved countries.
But, no one seems to have a problem with Canadians taking the high paying executive jobs in the northern US. Just the $2.00/hour jobs along the TEXICANO wasteland.
The men that come across the border and work for contractors (against the law, only because the contractor WHO USUALLY IS AMERICAN, saves money by paying under the table) have to get to the hiring depot and take their chances. They are very orderly and behaved about the process, and show much more civility than AMERICAN women at KMART on the day after THANKSGIVING.
They have the same goals as you and I.
They want to feed their families, and they want to be free some day.
Many Americans had ancestors, long ago, or even recently, who had and pursued those same goals.
President Bush has an angle.
He is President. He want the moral, the legal, the Christian, the AMERICAN thing to be done when it comes to border crossers. Those with harmful intent will face justice.
Those trying to provide will be recognized and given the chance.
If you 'closed' the borders, you might keep all 'illegal or undocumented" migrants out.
You might keep all those trying to live in the USA without naturalization out.
They would give up eventually, but the terrorists would not.
WE DON"T WANT TO KEEP EVERYONE OUT. JUST THE BAD GUYS.
What you don't know is that we have a 99.9% success ration SO FAR on keeping bad guys out , or their supplies out, since 9/11.
Were the actual arrests, and materials captured from those who tried made known, you would be shocked at the AMOUNT.
President Bush made a deal to not pursue some of the DEM ISSUES in trade for getting the CIA back under control. It was renamed in his honor and he picked a new head to start routing the corruption. It is not done, there are still snakes in the woodpile. Very dangerous snakes with LICENSES TO KILL/NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
President Bush is routing corruption in government at all levels, by setting an example of conviction and insistence on following the law and the rules of this great nation.
Is he a hero? NO.
He is just a man who believed what he was taught about God, the law, about civility, about chivalry and courtesy, about refusing to back down from principal and protection of the innocent.
He is a man who refuses to trash his conscious and soul for the golden ring.
It is what used to be called, "JUST DOING YOUR JOB RIGHT."
It is little wonder so few understand and accept how and what he is doing.
What about Canadians?
If you want to go to Canada for a fishing trip, do you feel you have the right?
oh puhleeze spare me; the President has violated his oath to the Constitution where he swore to protect American citizens. The Constitution makes clear this would be both foreign and domestic.....and we have been invaded by illegal aliens.
America is about to become a third-world ghetto. Real citizens not only won't, but can't afford to work at the slave-labor prices that employers can get for illegal Mexicans, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc. It's a race to the bottom, you see; the blue-collars can either work their asses off for pennies or not work at all and starve. Cui bono? Who benefits? Employers, that's who.
It's disgusting how transparent the whole thing was. Bush crowed about larger detention centers that (now that everyone essentially has amnesty) will never be needed. How stupid does he think we are?!?!?!
But it's ok, we proles will have our revenge in the end. Pretty soon, no one will be able to afford all of the pretty gadgets (Xboxes, iPods, cars, computers) that employers are now hiring illegal aliens and cheap overseas labor to make, because regular people won't make enough money at their jobs to buy them. How will they make a profit then? They'll be joining us in the breadline soon enough, but not before their short-sightedness has ruined us all.
The MANPOWER currently on ALL BORDERS (oh yeah, MEXICO is not the only BORDER area for the US. All COASTLINES are border areas, as well as the northern border to Canada) is the HIGHEST EVER.
There have been NO TERRORISTS with MATERIALS to be used to destroy US CITIZENS that have gotten across our borders and completed their mission.
NONE, since 9/11. DO YOU ALL GET THAT!!!!
If you are going to demand that our government and it's leaders DO SOMETHING (as we have a right to demand) make sure what you demand is even possible first.
President Bush would have to violate the laws of office, of our country, our type of government to make the INSTANT CHANGES I have seen demanded by multiple posters on this very thread.
The EXACT AMOUNT of new BORDER PATROL PERSONNEL is being added each month, as per LAWS AND BILLS PASSED BY THE SENATE and CONGRESS of our national government.
President Bush did not hire these people, or vote them in.
WE DID.
Do not blame President BUSH for following the law and spending the money you authorized, and not a penny more.
If you violate the law to soothe people's concerns, your public gains false consolation, and you are still a law violator.
We wanted Bill Clinton to follow the law, and damned him for not doing so.
We get a President who follows the law and yet the public wants to blame him for things that have not occurred due to the increase in surveillance and security so far.
MOST PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY should consider whether they deserve to be an AMERICAN CITIZEN, instead of whether George Bush deserves to be PRESIDENT.
Better go drink some more of the Bush Kool-Aid.
"Free Trade" as practiced by the white house, is global socialism.
A FREE AND INDEPENDENT AMERICA?
If you want the borders CLOSED, then you are not interested in a FREE and INDEPENDANT AMERICA.
You are like a crack addict hiding in his house, afraid to go out and face the world.
You assume you are safe because your doors and windows are boarded up.
You might be safe, but you assuredly are not FREE nor INDEPENDANT.
Your finances have dried up because you have cannot interact with others in employment or earnings.
Your false pride in being a 'TRUE AMERICAN' and keeping all NON-AMERICANS out has left you in the silence, and the darkness, to die alone.
Since you aren't in DC campaigning against the high rate of child molestors, then should one assume you are FOR MOLESTING CHILDREN?
If you are going to spend time TYPING on a KEYBOARD, you should make better use of your time.
COME UP WITH A MORE INTELLIGENT RESPONSE OR QUESTION and promote solutions, instead of making obviously ridiculous arguments.
As I have stated and offered before, YOU come up with a PLAN OUTLINE, with timetables, money resources, get the SENATE and CONGRESS to SWEAR to SUPPORT you during VOTING, an impact statement on the financial losses for American companies, for Canadian, for Mexican companies, for all FOREIGN COMPANIES (many of those who died on the WTC on 9/11 were not 'AMERICANS', they just worked here.) for "CLOSING THE BORDERS", WITH AN EXPECTED COMPLETION DATE.
We will all look it over and if it is workable, then we will all tell the President WHAT A GOOF HE IS.
If you cannot provide the simple outline of a workable plan, in writing, RIGHT FRICKING NOW, then I would suggest that you realize your complaints are having the same type of effect as the lies of the DEMS in regards to the US MILITARY LIVES AT RISK IN IRAQ.
THINK ABOUT THAT.
Are you a good citizen?
Or are you risking Americans safety, security and happiness because you enjoy bitching?
What amazed me is how he came on as the Caped Crusader that just discovered we have a problem and now he is going to solve it. That is nonsense - Bush is the problem. If he was serious about this he would have already done something about it.
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