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 2 points 22 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 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 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.