I’ve loved Anglish for a long time, but my favorite example is Uncleftish Beholding a scientific paper written in Anglish. “Stuff” turns out to be a pretty logical way to explain shit.
The Anglo-Saxons loved compound words. The vocabulary of Old English (and just before that) was very small, so putting words together was necessary for building more complex concepts.
English, a Germanic tongue carried into Britain by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians, has been influenced by:
Celtic languages
A tiny bit of Pictish
Old Norse
Latin
Greek
Norman Old French (a dialect somewhat distinct from the rest of Frankia)
Isn’t English the amalgamation of like 5 different languages and if everything were broken down like this, English would sound just as ridiculous?
I think every language probably sounds silly if transliterated into another language
You’ve clearly never heard of Torpenhow Hill, which translating all to English, means Hill Hill Hill Hill.
Coincidentally, I just watched a video on that sort of thing the other day that was pretty neat: Anglish: English without the ‘foreign’ bits
I’ve loved Anglish for a long time, but my favorite example is Uncleftish Beholding a scientific paper written in Anglish. “Stuff” turns out to be a pretty logical way to explain shit.
The Anglo-Saxons loved compound words. The vocabulary of Old English (and just before that) was very small, so putting words together was necessary for building more complex concepts.
English, a Germanic tongue carried into Britain by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians, has been influenced by:
My favorite English compound word is bookkeeper. 3 consecutive double letters.