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> Anglish is a kind of English which prefers native words over those borrowed from foreign languages. does not make sense - english is a language sythesised fr

> Anglish is a kind of English which prefers native words over those borrowed from foreign languages. does not make sense - english is a language sythesised from huge borrowings from other languages, over time. what is the "native" language supposed to be?

klooney 4y ago
Probably the Germanic languages of the Anglo Saxons- it's called Anglish, after all.
- zabzonk 4y ago
  what it is called (which is a kind of advertising) is no evidence of where this came from.
- bloppe 4y ago
  This is turtles all the way down. All Germanic languages are highly related to the other Indo-European languages. The Latin alphabet we use to write can be traced back to Egyptian Hieroglyphs. People just like to pick arbitrary points in an evolutionary timeline and use those points to create in-groups and out-groups.
  - triyambakam 4y ago
    But if you take that view, you can't define anything. You can't even say it's the Latin alphabet. We must constantly ignore the "turtles" for many things in daily life. So yes, it's arbitrary but that's not a problem. It's just what they chose for the project.
    - bloppe 4y ago
      I'm not saying it's a bad project. I think it's cool, but the words "pure" and "native" don't make sense to me to describe it.
triyambakam 4y ago
If you wind back when the borrowings started happening in great number, you get to a time when English was mostly "purely" Germanic. That's what this project is - as if Old English had continued on without being influenced from French etc.
- zabzonk 4y ago
  borrowings have always happened. and as regards early english, did you ever see phillip larkin describe it as "ape's bumfodder"? luckily we replaced it with many, many borrowings, so much so that looking at AS english is prainful on the brain - and uneccessary.
  - theandrewbailey 4y ago
    True, but only a quarter to a third of modern English vocabulary can be legitimately described as having purely English or Germanic origins. It might as well not be "English" at this point.
  - triyambakam 4y ago
    Of course, at different times it happened to more or less a degree, and from different languages. It's all arbitrary, but this project chose an arbitrary precision of "pure" Germanic English. It's their choice and doesn't feel ideologically motivated, more so in the spirit of conlang (constructed languages).
    - zabzonk 4y ago
      > "pure" Germanic English something there never has been?
      - triyambakam 4y ago
        No, there was a definite period of history when English was highly Germanic and lacked influence from non-Germanic languages.
      - 4y ago
xeyownt 4y ago
They said that "native" is not Anglish, they should have used "inborn", which means their about page is not written in Anglish...

klooney 4y ago

Probably the Germanic languages of the Anglo Saxons- it's called Anglish, after all.

zabzonk 4y ago
what it is called (which is a kind of advertising) is no evidence of where this came from.
bloppe 4y ago
This is turtles all the way down. All Germanic languages are highly related to the other Indo-European languages. The Latin alphabet we use to write can be traced back to Egyptian Hieroglyphs. People just like to pick arbitrary points in an evolutionary timeline and use those points to create in-groups and out-groups.
- triyambakam 4y ago
  But if you take that view, you can't define anything. You can't even say it's the Latin alphabet. We must constantly ignore the "turtles" for many things in daily life. So yes, it's arbitrary but that's not a problem. It's just what they chose for the project.
  - bloppe 4y ago
    I'm not saying it's a bad project. I think it's cool, but the words "pure" and "native" don't make sense to me to describe it.

triyambakam 4y ago

If you wind back when the borrowings started happening in great number, you get to a time when English was mostly "purely" Germanic. That's what this project is - as if Old English had continued on without being influenced from French etc.

zabzonk 4y ago
borrowings have always happened. and as regards early english, did you ever see phillip larkin describe it as "ape's bumfodder"? luckily we replaced it with many, many borrowings, so much so that looking at AS english is prainful on the brain - and uneccessary.
- theandrewbailey 4y ago
  True, but only a quarter to a third of modern English vocabulary can be legitimately described as having purely English or Germanic origins. It might as well not be "English" at this point.
- triyambakam 4y ago
  Of course, at different times it happened to more or less a degree, and from different languages. It's all arbitrary, but this project chose an arbitrary precision of "pure" Germanic English. It's their choice and doesn't feel ideologically motivated, more so in the spirit of conlang (constructed languages).
  - zabzonk 4y ago
    > "pure" Germanic English something there never has been?
    - triyambakam 4y ago
      No, there was a definite period of history when English was highly Germanic and lacked influence from non-Germanic languages.
    - 4y ago

xeyownt 4y ago

They said that "native" is not Anglish, they should have used "inborn", which means their about page is not written in Anglish...