Spearthrower wrote:


Sometimes the internet reminds you that it could be one of the most amazing resources to humanity if it weren't for all the, you know, other stuff!

Back in the day, it would've taken a serious investment of time to discover just those specific details contained in the above presentation. This would've involved paying for Higher Education, reading numerous historical and linguistic books, perhaps visiting the area - months of time. Sure, you would've ultimately had a much deeper and broader understanding of the topic, but then you'd have invested so much time and effort to become specialized to some degree - today, you can watch a 13 minute video to get a really sound overview with lots of detailed examples to give a basis of knowledge.

Of course, not all sources are equal, and I think that's something you still get much more rapidly and coherently from education than you can get from reading/watching stuff on t'net.

The_Metatron wrote:
Many there spoke better English than I do.

scott1328 wrote:
I've been watching LangFocus videos for several years now.

Another related channel that I find equally interesting is

https://www.youtube.com/user/NativLang/videos

He covers similar topics but with cute cartoon animation as well!

The_Piper wrote:We have Amish people around here, they speak some kind of Dutch, or is it misnamed? Oh yeah, I have the most amazing resource that exists to find out in 11 seconds. The fact that the internet exists to learn about so much, for me never gets old or dull.
Too bad some people are dull and only care to use it to teach themselves fear, hate, and bullshit.

British history contains several periods of major cultural change. It remains controversial as to how much these periods coincided with substantial immigration from continental Europe, even for those that occurred most recently. In this study, we examine genetic data for evidence of male immigration at particular times into Central England and North Wales. To do this, we used 12 biallelic polymorphisms and six microsatellite markers to define high-resolution Y chromosome haplotypes in a sample of 313 males from seven towns located along an east-west transect from East Anglia to North Wales. The Central English towns were genetically very similar, whereas the two North Welsh towns differed significantly both from each other and from the Central English towns. When we compared our data with an additional 177 samples collected in Friesland and Norway, we found that the Central English and Frisian samples were statistically indistinguishable. Using novel population genetic models that incorporate both mass migration and continuous gene flow, we conclude that these striking patterns are best explained by a substantial migration of Anglo-Saxon Y chromosomes into Central England (contributing 50%–100% to the gene pool at that time) but not into North Wales.