Setanta wrote:When Brandon contends that a word such as florid is obscure, this thread become meaningless.
Not that there was much hope for it to start with.
Personality Disorders
"Personality disorder, also called character disorder, mental disorder that is marked by deeply ingrained and lasting patterns of inflexible, maladaptive, or antisocial behaviour. A personality disorder is an accentuation of one or more personality traits to the point that the trait significantly impairs an individual's social or occupational functioning. Personality disorders are not, strictly speaking, illnesses, since they need not involve the disruption of emotional, intellectual, or perceptual functioning. In many cases, persons with a personality disorder do not seek psychiatric treatment for such unless they are pressured to by relatives or by a court"
?- Encyclopedia Britannica.
). Thw two languages -- modern German and Old English -- developed in a parallel path until 1066 when Duke Guilliame (William or Wilhelm) of Normandy invaded England and Norman French became the language of the Court. From that point, the development of English took a Francophic turn while that of German continued on its straight path right to tady's Hochdeutsch.
