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Originally Posted by New Brisavoine
Both "block" and "Europe" are French words. So your text is wrong in the first place.
It is nearly impossible to speak English without using words of French origin.
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Not particularly difficult.
"Yesterday I ate an apple. It was good. But then for breakfast today I baked a chicken and it made me sick. I went outside and looked at the sunny sky and then I felt better."
That paragraph is a cohesive thought, an entire story, and guess what? Not a single word of French or of Latin origin. 100% Germanic.
You can't construct a complete story like that in English
without using words of Germanic origin. Because, again, the
core vocabulary of English is overwhelmingly Germanic. Statements like "French words are 60% of English" are completely misleading because they ignore that we use words like
today,
eat, and
the way more often than we use the words
parliament,
cuisine, or
attorney.