Linguist makes sensational claim: English is a Scandinavian language
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 00:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
"Have you considered how easy it is for us Norwegians to learn English?" asks Jan Terje Faarlund, professor of linguistics at the University of Oslo. "Obviously there are many English words that resemble ours. But there is something more: its fundamental structure is strikingly similar to Norwegian. We avoid many of the usual mistakes because the grammar is more or less the same."