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The Anglish community isn't ideologically motivated. It's a fun conlang (constructed language) project from language nerds.
by triyambakam 4y ago
The Anglish community isn't ideologically motivated. It's a fun conlang (constructed language) project from language nerds.
- giraffe_lady 4y ago[flagged]
- triyambakam 4y agoWe would always be too close, then. The Anglish project is more than 20 years old. It could be older, but I've been familiar with it for at least that long.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoMaybe. But just because the time will never be right doesn't mean now is the time either.
- triyambakam 4y agoThat's a horrible position to take
- philwelch 4y agoThis is what happened to the English under French-speaking dominion in the Middle Ages.
- nerdix 4y agoI actually look at it in the opposite way. There actually are modern English purists. We sometimes call them grammar nazis. Its not usually the result of some overtly oppressive ideology. They just mistakenly believe that there is a "correct" way to speak English. However, the net result of it is the stigmatization of people from poor communities. This project very clearly shows how silly English purity is in a clever way: that the "correct" English of day may very well have been considered "incorrect" by the purists of yesteryear. Language evolves.