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What Is Anglish?

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Re: What Is Anglish?

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Post by tsm »

epicureanideal wrote: post #28
triyambakam wrote: post #20

I 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,…

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?

I think Shetlandic is the closest you'll get: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland_dialect

Re: What Is Anglish?

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

ggm wrote: post #198
nwah1 wrote: post #188

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If I steal your bicycle, but you still have it, then is it really stolen?

loan has the explicit give back property. thats what a loan IS: 'borrowed' carries the same implications with a down-note on the giving back. taken, adopted, brought in, co-opted... there's a thesaurus of choices which to my way of thinking do a better job of describing english's habit of .. adopting other languages words. the key point is that gate-keeping in english doesn't work. we don't have the academie francais…

howl is so clearly old English it's funny (well Middle English but I call it old because I am not a pedant or professional). Moon is also old English but it is related to other words from other languages and comes from some far off proto language. So moon doesn't give the same feeling of look at that old timey word that howl does.

Re: What Is Anglish?

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

That's basically what the Academie Francaise have been doing all along for French and why we have words like "courriel" instead of email in the dictionary despite the fact most people never use them.

Re: What Is Anglish?

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Post by coldtea »

tsimionescu wrote: post #213
Karrot_Kream wrote: post #185

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Yup that's where the term "lingua franca" comes from.

The "Franks" in lingua franca refers to all Western Europeans collectively, it's not actually about the French.

Etymologically. In the last 2-3 centuries it was used referring to French.

Re: What Is Anglish?

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Post by oblio »

biztos wrote: post #234
oefnak wrote: post #222

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Synoniemenbüch, probably?

Synonymwörterbuch, apparently: https://shop.duden.de/collections/worterbucher-und-sprache/p...

Lazy just like us. Thesaurus in Romanian is "dicționar de sinonime". I won't bother translating it back to English, you can figure it out :-D

Re: What Is Anglish?

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Post by deafpolygon »

pja wrote: post #253
deafpolygon wrote: post #199

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In Dutch, as an example we have a word called zoetwater - which if you translate it literally, is "sweet water". But it is the word for 'freshwater' in English [as opposed to saltwater], not some kind of sweet water. Even though zoetwater could be literally translated, no one really knows it means freshwater in English. There is advertisement for 'fris water' or 'vers water', which means fresh water correctly.

Fresh, non-salt water used to be called sweet in English too, but that term has fallen out of use for some reason.

TIL. Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.

Re: What Is Anglish?

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Post by LeonB »

mkotowski wrote: post #192
hcayless wrote: post #166

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It’s interesting to me how comparatively impoverished Anglish seems. Here’s to promiscuity!

Opinion of a Polish guy: In my eyes, English is pretty bloated, when seemingly almost every concept can have three or more alternative words, each from a different source. It is all matter of perspective, I suppose. :) I think such feeling can be caused by languages that rely strongly on creating compound words rather than borrowing a new ones (example from the site: Dictionary > Wordbook).

C# is headed in that direction too.

Re: What Is Anglish?

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Post by OnlyMortal »

permo-w wrote: post #160
OnlyMortal wrote: post #45

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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.

cheers means goodbye in Yorkshire? In Lancashire (and elsewhere in the UK) I’ve never heard it mean anything other than “thank you” or the thing you say after clinking glasses the only time I’ve ever heard anything different is from foreigners learning English

It’s also used in Bristol. “Cheers Drive” is a good-bye to a bus driver.

Re: What Is Anglish?

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Post by oblio »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #270
hinkley wrote: post #163

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Rome first, the descendants of Charlemagne second, and William the Conqueror. “English” didn’t have a chance.

I mean Rome came first everywhere, William the conqueror came from Norsemen, which means Normandy was where the Vikings settled there. Pretty much all of Europe has had this kind of multiple conquests different language groups percolating everywhere - but English is the one that chose this model of how to handle it.

Which model?

Re: What Is Anglish?

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Post by junon »

Anglish seems just to be literally translated German, and still uses borrowed words (book, for example).

It sounds almost like the handbook from Severance or something quasi-fanatical, fictional religious texts or such.

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