I was hoping it would be a combination of Angular and English.
What Is Anglish?
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have any examples of an English / Scandinavian hybrid? Also, I wonder if such a thing might actually arise in the Scandinavian countries in the future?
Yorkshuhman here… we say “ta” (tak) for thanks. We also say “cheers” (tschuss) for goodbye. Going a bit deeper, “dale” (daal - Dutch), “beck” (beek - Dutch). Having learnt (not learned) in Amsterdam, it’s very, very like the dialects of the north east of Yorkshuh. So much so, it’s rather a surprise.
Are you familiar with the Danelaw, and with Danegeld? I think that knowing "Danes" ruled much of mainland Britain for hundreds of years and provided kings of a unified-ish (pre-Norman) England (Cnut [Canute]) makes it less surprising?
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#173I have had a lot of fun with Anglish in the past, composing poetry and even attempting to write school assignments in it. However as I've grown as a linguist, I now disagree with the direction that they've taken it, but I understand why. That is, the Anglish project uses cognates and sometimes inventions from Old English, Dutch and German because most linguists (and people) consider English a West Germanic language,…
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I don't think this has anything to do with Brittain or geography but rather the language of the Angles, which is posited to form the primary substrate for modern English.
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#174This is silly. There is no such thing as "native" English. English is a hodgepodge of languages from Scandinavian, Celtic, German, Latin, French and more.
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#175> We the Folk of the Foroned Riches, to make a more flawless oneship, build rightness, bring frith and stillness to our land, shield one another, uphold the overall welfare, and hold fast the Blessings of Freedom to ourselves and our offspring, do foresay and lay down this lawbook for the foroned riches of Americksland. :)) for a second there I thought this was /r/justneckbeardthings
Honestly I can only hear this in the voice of one of the hobbits from the Amazon LOTR series.
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
Although it seems intended as fun I’m always a little nervous of things like this because it also denies the power relationships that led to those borrowings. Degallicized English is kind of erasing the relationship between England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and even Cornwall. I’d be much more comfortable if I didn’t have to explain to so many Americans that Scotland is not a part of England, that it isn’t a separate…
While it's tough to find uses of the word "degallicize", I'd imagine it comes from Gallic, meaning roughly French, not Gaelic.
Of course, the root of Gallic is undoubtedly the same as Gaelic :)
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#177This is silly. There is no such thing as "native" English. English is a hodgepodge of languages from Scandinavian, Celtic, German, Latin, French and more.
And the Angles came from modern day Germany anyway
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#179why? serious question
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#180"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." --James D. Nicoll
It’s interesting to me how comparatively impoverished Anglish seems. Here’s to promiscuity!
There are lots of languages that are more insular than English. Do you consider them to be impoverished, why so? All a language needs is to provide the ability to communicate to its speakers.