[quote=@Nerevarine]
My question is what kind of sadistic fucks would try and tailor a moderately inflected Germanic language's grammar to mimic the features of a highly inflected Italic language?
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This one dude in the 1700s was studying Latin, saw it as the most perfect language, and devised prescriptive rules for English to follow.

I like how this video touched on it's vs its