Anglish - english without loanwords

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This fellowship is open to anyone who is nosy about delving into anglish. This fellowship is anti-fascists.

I will not frem any more steers unless it unfold itself to be needed.

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My motivation for using anglish (slrpnk.net)

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I made this community because I've been using the anglish dictionary for a while now, and I felt it was nice to have a spot to post about anglish if I wanted to raise some opinions about one thing or another.

On the other side, I haven't read much anglish, so I don't have a flow with the language.

I have been part of the telegram group, but I left it after the core left.

Otherwise I feel like anglish has an easy time attracting fascists. but I will be very clear that they are not welcome here.

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[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

Well...

fascist - 1921, from Italian fascista, from fascio (“bundle, bunch”)

So first task seems to be finding an alternative word for that.

You may also want to talk to the guys from the German "ich_iel" community, they have longstanding experience fighting English loan-words in the German language (so similar, but also quite different...).

[–] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'll check them out:)

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I’ll check them out:)

Just make sure to not speak English to them! ;-)

[–] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 hours ago

I don't know german, but perhaps this would be a great way to start :P

[–] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I think the word "fascism" is very difficult to translate properly. However, I have seen somebody define fascism as "the ideology of thinking through the blood of the nation" and perhaps it could be a starting point for translating the word.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, fascism is a hard one, as it seems to not have a clear definition from the start...

[–] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 hours ago

The thing is that we can recognize fascism when we see it. So the question then if it is so easy to reckognize, then why can't we put a proper word upon it? I think it has to do with that we use certain political frameworks that makes us misunderstand the nature of fascism. Because if we use the wrong framework, we are going to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of that which we talk about.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

lol, ok:

national: [insert Anglish term]
socialist: [insert Anglish term]

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 12 hours ago

That's a common misconception.
While national socialists where fascists, not all fascists are national socialists.

So let's stick with the word the translator @activistPnk@slrpnk.net linked to:

"fascist" = "bundleriken bundleriker"