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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 precis
by 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 agoNo, there was a definite period of history when English was highly Germanic and lacked influence from non-Germanic languages.
- simonh 4y agoThink of it as English as it was when the concept of England originated.
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- zabzonk 4y ago> only a quarter to a third of modern English vocabulary can be legitimately described as having purely English does that make sense? are we dealing with recursive definitions of english here?