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| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6119 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes  22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 1 of 39 05 April 2011 at 1:15am | IP Logged | ||
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This thread is for writing in the English tongue but without words borrowed from other tongues like French, Latin and Greek. Give it a go. I think you will find it harder than you might guess to make your speech plain to other folks without borrowings.
Here is a link that talks more about Anglish: http://anglish.wikia.com/wiki/Anglish Edited by JW on 05 April 2011 at 1:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5754 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 2 of 39 05 April 2011 at 1:32am | IP Logged | ||
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What shall we talk about in Anglish? I had never even heard of Anglish before today.
However, writing only these few words has made me work hard to not write words from naughty tongues! Do tell me if you find mistakes in my writings, I used http://www.etymonline.com to help me! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6119 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 3 of 39 05 April 2011 at 1:57am | IP Logged | ||
Only this I think is wrong. It goes back to the Latin tongue: 1175–1225; (v.) Middle English usen < Old French user < Latin ūsus, past participle of ūtī to use; (noun) Middle English < Old French < Latin ūsus act of using a thing, application, employment, equivalent to ūt-, stem of ūtī to use + -tus suffix of v. action, with tt > s We can talk about anything and everything in this thread but you cannot write outland words. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5754 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 39 05 April 2011 at 3:10am | IP Logged | ||
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How do I find another word for 'use'...hmmmmm that's a hard one!
JW, how did you come to be aware of Anglish, and what, for you, makes it a tongue to be learnt and known? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6139 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 5 of 39 05 April 2011 at 3:20am | IP Logged | ||
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I think it is a wonderful thought to write only in truly English words. Reading about it at the place which JW gave, it made English seem so endearing. It is indeed rather hard to write without 'benutzing' (how can you say "use"?) words from French or other outland tongues.
EDIT: Ugh! I remembered that "interesting" is a borrowing. I can't think of anything better, so I wrote "wonderful" instead. Edited by ellasevia on 05 April 2011 at 3:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5520 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 6 of 39 05 April 2011 at 4:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Some great links:
Online Etymology Dictionary List of English words of Anglo-Saxon origin List of English words of Old Norse origin 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5127 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 7 of 39 05 April 2011 at 4:27am | IP Logged | ||
I suppose you could say that "[link] was your helping hand" or you 'beheld" it. Not as precise, I know. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5520 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 8 of 39 05 April 2011 at 4:42am | IP Logged | ||
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use vb & nbsp;
note (ME, from OE notu), brook (at wikiwordbook), brouk, handle, work, wield, do with, put forth, play on 1 person has voted this message useful |
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