pittmirg wrote:Subjunctive-wise, the Germanic tongues are but a faint reverberance after all while the Romance ones are the very heart of darkness...
Eh, the subjunctive is very healthy in German. Even in the dialects, where they can't be bothered with all the irregularities, their solution is to use a periphrastic construction (i.e subj. of tun + INF.) rather than dispense with the mood altogether.
On the other hand, the subjunctive is all but dead in Cajun French. About the only exception is the fixed expression il faut (que) and then only for a half-dozen verbs or so. Even in this case, many speakers substitute the indicative, e.g. Il faut j'sus/sois là à deux heures "I have to be there at two."