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International English is the concept of the English language as a global means of communication in numerous dialects. It is also referred to as Global English, World English, Common English, Continental English, General English, Engas (English as associate language), or Globish. There have been many
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English is thus more closely related to West Frisian than to any other modern language, although less than a quarter of the vocabulary of Modern English is shared with West Frisian or other West Germanic languages because of extensive borrowings from Norse, Norman, Latin, and other
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2). Is only a quarter of the vocabulary really shared between English and other West Germanic languages?? Frisian, Dutch, and German have all borrowed substantially from French, Latin, and Greek as well, not only English. This makes that percentage
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I am sorry I cannot really correct this article, as I don't know much about this topic, and my corrections would feels like assumptions, but without basis, so I could really be inventing some ideas. Noting the problem here hoping help will come!
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with some other editors earlier this year. That article now enjoys "good article" status. It looks like this related article could be improved a lot by use of more sources. Which of you have sources at hand? --
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higher (--we are similar on shared native vocabulary, as well as on borrowed vocabulary). I read somewhere that Modern German has a 60% lexical similarity to Modern English (where not only does
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I've been looking at sources related to international English while updating the article
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Frisian than it is to North Frisian and Saterland Frisian? Perhaps this should read
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since English is equidistant to all of them, being they are all the descendants of
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EN-GB OED in Int'l english like that in Dorling Kindersley books please!?
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Next paragraphs sums up boring international english existing, it's fine.
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