User blog comment:Wordforword/Implementing the Dative Case system in today's speech./@comment-34246601-20180807165929/@comment-34246601-20180808011431

You are right about that; I have met folks that somehow think that English comes from Latin as well. It truly is upsetting knowing that they know not about their roots, ond do not care either - they often care more about getting the newest "iPhone" as soon as it comes out, as if that is something meaningful. I even think that one of the other grounds for why they think it is from Latin, is that they see that Latin had the same bookstaffs as what we have now, so they guess that it must be where English came from - it looks to me like a lot of those folks think that if two talks are written in the same bookstaffs, it means that they are alike - which is a brainless way of thinking. As well, I do not like how Old English is not taught in schools, yet French ond Spanish are! Not only is Old English more meaningful to the bairns of England, but it would even be onefold for them to learn, for that it is alike to what they already speak.

Last year, another lad saw me reading a write-up written in Old English. He asked me what talk it was written in, ond I answered: "Old English".

He said back, "What? You mean Latin?" Which I answered by saying, "No; I mean Old English."

His next answer wound me up a lot. "Yea, that is Latin." So I answered back, "No! It is Old English, which is in its own group from Latin. Latin is what became Italian, French, ond the others like those. English is Germanish, not Latin. That is why it is like Deutsch."