Voices in the wilderness.

[Exile]

They should translate all the latin on school motto univeristy et. to English, better yet Jamaican....ok let's hear them...

[Farmah]

Hinglish! hmmmmmm mi nuh shore seh da one deh fit inna di "romance" catigerry.

[MissLondon]

Thats exactly correct myyout. In the 5th century AD English was a Germanic language. Over the last 15oo years English has undergone such drastic romance modification, including much French injection that for all practical purposes it should not be any longer considered a Germanic language, and should be considered a Romance language, that despite England never being a part of the Roman empire. Also understand that Latin was the language of the educated educated elite 1500 years ago, and Germanic based languages were considered the language of the lower classes, therein lies the reason why the English wanted to move their language away from Germanic roots to a Latin/Romance root. The vocabulary of middle- and modern-English is more than 70% Latin/French roots and lesss than 30% Germanic. This makes English essentially a Romance language as far as I, and many linguists are concerned. .

Which linguists are these? Care to give some examples?
English was defintely "softened" over the years with French (in particular) influences (the ise endings instead of the ize endings is an example) and does have a significant latin based vocabularly (not 70% though), but vocab is only one aspect of a language.

[Muadib]

Some Cunning Linguists....

[Exile]

Off the tip of your tongue...yu likkle LAtin lover yu!

[Gamma]

das canadadian t'ank yuh very much! fram tuhronno ... hontareo ef you please!