Well, there I was in the pub when a bloke come in and asked did I want a pint of purl ale.
I was tempted to point out that he had used an interesting example of the perphrastic 'do', instead I said that was very kind of him and could I have one as well for my imaginary friend. Which got us to talking.
He said he'd just read an article by an American academic all about how English was influenced by Celtic languages in spite of what the experts say.
He did tell me that as well as the periphrastic do there were also possessive gerunds, embedded inversion of modals, nouns, and verbs and that sort of thing.
He also pointed out the Semitic influences on Celtic and Germanic languages, mainly through trade within the Iberian coastal trading network.
He was also keen on early Welsh and English poetry which seem to share very similar imagery dealing with animals and colours and light and all that stuff, unlike mainstream Germans. Who are very dry.
At which point he did point out that it was my round and he would have a pint of purl ale for himself, oh and also for his imaginary friend and his imaginary friend's sister who had also joined the company.
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