User blog comment:Hjetland/Man, Latin, indo-european/@comment-33678570-20180706183854/@comment-34246601-20180706185314

The Romance talks are a lot further away from English than English is to the other Germanish ones.

Do-upholding is in the other Germanish talks, only not as much. I am not saying that it was the only way you could do it in English, I already know that you can speak English without it. I am saying that we need not take it out, for that it is not only in English, it is in some others too.