How would you feel about coming with instead of Marty?

[Torsten]

I’ve been learning English on and off for over 40 years now, and this is the first time I’ve come across a sentence that has a phrasal verb construction very similar to its German counterpart. I was not aware that it existed in English as well:

How would you feel about coming with instead of Marty? And this is its German equivalent: Was würdest du davon halten, anstelle von Marty mitzukommen?

[NearlyNapping]

This is very similar to this one.

New York is said to be a beautiful city/ Have you ever been? Please have a look at this

Hi everyone, I watched an interview with a very famous actress and she really makes clear that the English language is changing as are other languages. It went as follows: Interviewer: 'New York is said to be a beautiful city. Actress: ‘Yes, have you ever been?’ Instead of ‘Have you ever been there?’ It’s not occassionally she uses this, nor a coincicdence, because she uses this phrase very often. What do you think @Andrea, @NearlyNapping, @Anglophile, @Alan, @Arinker.

Maybe check the Midwest and North Central dialect links to see if you find other similarities to German.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_American_English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-Central_American_English

I’m not sure if you know that German is the most common ancestry in the US. The Midwest and North Central US have the heaviest concentration of German ancestry. In parts of North Central you can even hear what sounds like a Germanic accent.

If you look at immigration patterns over the decades, there trends with countries of origin that often coincide with something going on in those countries. In the early-mid 1800s there were large numbers of Irish immigrants. (The Great Potato Famine in Ireland.) This overlaps with a large number of German immigrants in the mid 1800s. If I’m not mistaken there was a lot of war going on in central Europe at that time.

The immigrants commonly ended up in the regions of the US that happened to be growing at the time. The Mid-1800s were approximately around the time of statehood in the north central US.