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TheFrenchMonk: 60% of the English language is actually made of French words you know :) But then, well - it is also probably true that 90% of French is made of Latin :)
Common misconception, if you look at the breakdown of those words the vast majority of them are academic language and came to English more or less directly as the result of mandatory Latin in the colleges back during that period. Latin being the language of academia for ages.

Now compare that to the language that we use everyday the reverse is true, the vast majority of that language is Germanic in origin with comparatively little influence from Latin.
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mobutu: Does anyone knows if *.Divinity games support and can be played at modern resolutions like 1680x1050?
Because I'm sick of 640*480 and later 800x600 "a la Diablo".
Thanks.
Yes, GoG version is patched for higher resolutions, with a setup tool that allows you to select resolutions up to 1280x1024, but you can get even higher resolutions by editing configuration file directly, check
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/divine_divinity_series/basic_buy_sell_repair_identify_window/post28
Post edited November 26, 2011 by petchema
I already have most of these and am waiting for the Abe's Odyssey promo pack featuring all five games.
Post edited November 26, 2011 by rjspring
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TheFrenchMonk: 60% of the English language is actually made of French words you know :) But then, well - it is also probably true that 90% of French is made of Latin :)
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hedwards: Common misconception, if you look at the breakdown of those words the vast majority of them are academic language and came to English more or less directly as the result of mandatory Latin in the colleges back during that period. Latin being the language of academia for ages.

Now compare that to the language that we use everyday the reverse is true, the vast majority of that language is Germanic in origin with comparatively little influence from Latin.
Actually that's not quite true either. The 60% is an exaggeration - 60% is indeed Latin-based from a variety of sources (including academic) - but somewhere around 30% of our words are Frankish-Norman French imports. Some of those French words are also Germanic, but they are the Frankish version as opposed to the Anglo-Saxon version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_French_origin

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Origins_of_English_PieChart.svg]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Origins_of_English_PieChart.svg[/url]

However, I would take exact numbers as a grain of salt for the reason here:

http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/howmanywords
Post edited November 26, 2011 by crazy_dave
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petchema: Yes, GoG version is patched for higher resolutions, with a setup tool that allows you to select resolutions up to 1280x1024, but you can get even higher resolutions by editing configuration file directly, check
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/divine_divinity_series/basic_buy_sell_repair_identify_window/post28
Thanks, after i've read several topics on the divinity forums I've decided to go with Divine, a lot of posters there are disappointed with Beyond.
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hedwards: Common misconception, if you look at the breakdown of those words the vast majority of them are academic language and came to English more or less directly as the result of mandatory Latin in the colleges back during that period. Latin being the language of academia for ages.

Now compare that to the language that we use everyday the reverse is true, the vast majority of that language is Germanic in origin with comparatively little influence from Latin.
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crazy_dave: Actually that's not quite true either. The 60% is an exaggeration - 60% is indeed Latin-based from a variety of sources (including academic) - but somewhere around 30% of our words are Frankish-Norman French imports. Some of those French words are also Germanic, but they are the Frankish version as opposed to the Anglo-Saxon version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_French_origin

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Origins_of_English_PieChart.svg]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Origins_of_English_PieChart.svg[/url]

However, I would take exact numbers as a grain of salt for the reason here:

http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/howmanywords
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSYwPTUKvdw