Dan Lyke on Nostr: npub1m3yyc…2lm5r yeah, circa high school, I was told that JFK's speechwriters ...

npub1m3yycjz7vy8s9h84k552lj8r2744f96vxgkrefdfxke7gn0rryqqm2lm5r (npub1m3y…lm5r) yeah, circa high school, I was told that JFK's speechwriters deliberately chose German root words and excised Latin/French root words from his speeches.

And I went to an upstate NY Waldorf school through 7th Grade, and the Hochdeutsch/Plattdeutsch divide in that community made the English roots even easier to see...