User blog comment:Akvii/Natlang vs. Conlang Discussion/@comment-1744236-20100428122212

@Zelos: No, it is correct. It is as Kenny said, «English is just a mix of a bunch of other languages, extremely messed up.» Nobody today understands Englisc, as it is as foreign to English speakers as Dutch and Icelandic. Englisc is closer to Icelandic than to modern English. That is why Englisc stole so many words from Nordic, like this, them, they, window, ship, and a lot more. Then Englisc went from being raided by Vikings to be conquered by Normans, descendants of the Vikings that settled on the northwest coast of what is known as France today. And they almost wiped Englisc out of Brittany, just as the Anglos and Saxons almost wiped out the Britons and their language. The Normans forced French upon the English, and Englisc became English, now with a vocabulary containing 40% French, including the Nordic words equip, equipment and equipage, all Anglified versions of Frenchified versions of the Nordic word skip, ship.