User blog comment:Hjetland/some ''ground rules''/@comment-34246601-20181015004043

Making English more "Indo-European" does not mean it becomes more Germanish. If you put Indo-European things into English that were never Germanish, then you have made it less Germanish! Also, Old English is not more-or-less Latin. As I have said before, they were already fairly far away from each other by the time that the Germanish talks were the Germanish talks.

Even though words like "someone" or "nobody" were not in Old English, that does not make them wrong. They still work as words, for that the two bits that they are made of work together to make the right meaning - by your way of thinking, a word like "wordbook" is also wrong, as it was not in Old English. Also, they are not from the 70s; you made that up. They are from early Middle English. What is from about that time though, ond is thanks to 'Feminism', is 'their'/'they'/'them' to mean one man. (Now and again, it can be found from before that as well, but it only became mainstream at about that time thanks to 'Feminism'.) I always say 'him' if I do not know whether it is a man or woman anyway.

You are not right in saying that they did not have weddings in Old English, or in the times of it. The word "wedding" itself is an Old English word. You say that there were no weddings as instead, "the man got a wife" - however, that is what a wedding is! And again, words like "girlfriend" or "boyfriend" are not wrong, for that those do work as words. (Whether a "girlfriend" is the same thing as a "wife" is another tale altogether.) They are Indo-European, or, if we look more narrowed-down, Germanish words though, for that they are made of Germanish roots.

About the last bit, All I will say is that the meanings of those words ("can", "may", "must") cross over with each other enough that they can mean the same thing when said with the right background. As a byspel, the Old English word that became "can" could also mean "to be up to do something (to be 'able')", therefore "can you do this" can also mean the same thing as "may you do this".