Re: [luv-talk] How not to deal with human resources

Russell Coker wrote:

[...] Dutch is probably the closest language to English in many ways (much closer than German or French [...]

Languages are classified taxonomically, thus: Dutch: Indo-European > Germanic > West Germanic > Low Franconian > Dutch English: Indo-European > Germanic > West Germanic > Anglo-Frisian > Anglic > English German: Indo-European > Germanic > West Germanic > High German > German language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Germanic_languages At a glance it would seem English is closer to Scots than Dutch, at least according to Wikipedia. The Scots article indicates it falls into the "is this a dialect or a language" grey area.