Why is "The Battle of Hastings" important to our language?

Question

Why is "The Battle of Hastings" important to our language?

Actually Adv. Vocab lol

Answer 1

Well, you don't say which is your language. In case you are talking about english, it is because William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy defeated poor king Harold and made the French the official language of england. Ironic, isn't ?
That is why the english language received an important contribution of words from French origin. Since that was the last time that england was invaded, we can say that modern english comes from a combination of the Anglo Saxon spoken by the common people of england and the French contribution from King William and his descendants.
By the way, one of his descendants was Richard I, Lion Hearted.
King Edward III, also a descendant ( he was a Plantagenet as well ) spoke only French. He didn't like to speak english

Answer 2

Was that the one where William the Conqueror took over England? Was it where the Normans were routed out? *Were* the Normans routed out? Dude, I don't remember. It's probably some battle where an English speaker fought some speakers of some other language and English won. Why else would it be important to the language, unless it influenced the way we speak? I don't know. Go look it up somewhere.

Yeah, maybe it was where the Normans took over. They were still Germanic speakers, so Norman French has had a huge impact on the lexicon of English (though not the basic grammar.) That makes more sense. But this sounds suspiciously like you're not doing your homework for your History of English class. Go to work, bucko!

Answer 3

The Normans (French) defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings in October, 1066. This ushered in the death of "Olde English" and gave birth to modern English, which takes a lot more from the Latin languages (particularly French) than did Olde English.

Answer 4

1066 A.D., the Battle of Hastings was a decisive fight during the Norman Conquest between the Brits (Anglo-Saxons) and the Normans (French, Flemish, and Breton-backed).
The Normans won and this marked the beginning of the end of Saxon England.
From a militaristic point this was one of the first true battles to demonstrate the combining effort and effect of different arms and weaponry when used together in a strategy.
To the victor goes the spoils, so the winner got to make the new rules... changes to society, government, religion included.

Answer 5

at the battle of hastings the french normans defeated the english thus creating the first french ruler in the English Monarch which changed england and the english language forever - thats why there is so much french influence in the english language.

Answer 6

The influence of French on English also resulted in what is called the great vowel shift. This is the main reason spelling and pronunciation in English are not consistent. For example, "though" (pronounced 'tho') and "rough" (pronounced 'ruf'). Same spelling of the ending but different pronunciations.