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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5580 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 17 of 39 20 April 2011 at 2:51am | IP Logged | ||
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While writing only in words with Germanic roots may not be easy, it is much easier than doing it the other way around, writing without any Germanic words at all! However, if Anglish is to be a full tongue in which you can talk about anything, it will need further words to fill in the holes left by the un-Germanic words. Some of this could be done by widening the meanings of some words, or making new words with word-endings, but some thoughts would need dead Old and Middle English words to be brought back to life. Edited by Levi on 20 April 2011 at 2:53am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 5159 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 18 of 39 21 April 2011 at 12:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I won´t get to do it, I´ve some dread to try speak only, but only English.
Are you Germanic lovers? PT: Thus, I got to write some words anyway. Edited by Gorgoll2 on 21 April 2011 at 12:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6133 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French | Message 19 of 39 26 December 2011 at 6:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have always liked the thought of anglish, but don't want it to become a man-made conlang filled with made-up words. Much of the writing I have read on the anglishmoot website, seems like that, and is barely understandable. Even the name 'anglish' makes it sound like a conlang, rather than merely a kind of everyday English that chooses inland words like it should be.
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| ReQuest Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5045 days ago 200 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Spanish | Message 20 of 39 26 December 2011 at 6:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Why should English be that way? Those outlandisch words give English a good way of showing ones innerfeelings in a very spot-on (precise... Cant think of anything) way.
(wow this is hard, like having the half of your tong cut out.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6133 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French | Message 21 of 39 26 December 2011 at 6:41pm | IP Logged | ||
The netherlandish tongue doesn't have nearly as many outland words, and you all can say anything. Edited by tritone on 26 December 2011 at 7:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ReQuest Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5045 days ago 200 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Spanish | Message 22 of 39 26 December 2011 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thats true but I think that English is wonderfuller (more wonderful, a latin way of putting it) since it has so many words that mean the same it gives English many ways to say the same things, which makes it a good tongue for rime tales and for books.
After typing this I do think your right though, this works! It's good, but I do think English is too far into latin words to turn back. It is hard to say what you think this way but is isn't something that can't be done. Dutch btw comes from Diets a old name for the tongue, so its a teutonic word. (germanic comes from Latin), the word Dutch has a very worthy (interesting) past tale in the English tongue. But it takes a lot of time to typ this up this way, more time then it would otherwise. Edited by ReQuest on 26 December 2011 at 7:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6133 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French | Message 23 of 39 26 December 2011 at 7:42pm | IP Logged | ||
I know, it's just that since German is latin, we have to call German dutch, and then dutch becomes netherlandish. The meaning shift: Germany -> Dutchland German (tongue) -> Dutch Dutch(tongue) -> Netherlandish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ReQuest Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5045 days ago 200 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Spanish | Message 24 of 39 26 December 2011 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Teutonic is better for German, that way nobody ends up being flustered.
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