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.

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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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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Interesting!

Are you attempting to free English completely of foreign influence?

TIL that Latin had not as much influence on English as I thought but it still appears a daunting task.

What about wine, as an example? That's more than just linguistic.

I was told that English partially* uses Latin grammar but maybe that was wrong?

I think I'll be reading some fantasy literature with a different mindset now.

* important, it's not a romanic language

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

I am of the belief that languages becomes more poetic and down to earth when we remove ourselves from the most intrusive influences. This is my experience from my own mother tongue norwegian. Moving away from speaking bokmål which is a blend of languages norse, danish, german, latin and french towards nynorsk which strives to use words that derives from norse or dialects culturally rooted in norway.

To be blunt, anglish is not my initiative. I don't know too much about the creation process of the anglish community and don't have any dialogue with them since they are only on centralized social media. I am just drawn to the project for the same reason I'm drawn towards nynorsk.

I think the word wine is poetic so I don't have much against it. I'd say my vision is to make a language more poetic, and anglish is in that direction.

English is a germanic language and has grammar deriving from it's germanic roots (that is what I have been told at least). But it has a great amount of latin/greek words.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

anglish is not my initiative.

OK.

I think the word wine is poetic so I don’t have much against it. I’d say my vision is to make a language more poetic, and anglish is in that direction.

I just used it as an example as not only the word for wine comes from Latin but also wine itself.

English is a germanic language and has grammar deriving from it’s germanic roots (that is what I have been told at least). But it has a great amount of latin/greek words.

Yep, according to this wikipedia I misremembered something there.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

TIL that Latin had not as much influence on English as I thought but it still appears a daunting task.

Well, when looking at the Wikipedia diagram (and also when considering that french is a primarily latin based language), the amount of words with latin roots would actually be really high.
I am more surprised that the Germanic rooted words don't have a higher percentage.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Origins_of_English_PieChart.svg

[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Interesting chart, which apparently only accounts for borrowed words. I would like to see a pie chart that includes Anglish to show the words invented with no orgin. Though I suppose it’s tricky because every region that has many English speakers would have their own inventory of homebrew words (Scotland, UK, USA, Australia, NZ, Canada, and even China and India). And there is no Academy Français equivalent to English.. ppl just using slang until it becomes widespread enough for a dictionary to include it. Nothing official.