@brodiehawker3
Profile
Registered: 2 years, 3 months ago
What is Anglish?
The aim of Anglish is: English with many fewer words borrowed from other tongues. Because of the fundamental adjustments to our language, to say that English people immediately speak Fashionable English is like saying that the French speak Latin. The fact is that we now speak a world language. The Anglish project is meant as a method of recovering the Englishness of English and of restoring ownership of the language to the English people.
The goal of the Anglish project differs from person to person, however mostly it is to discover and experiment with the English language. This exploration is driven for some by aesthetics, for the ethnic English by cultural wants, and yet for others it is only an attention-grabbing diversion or pastime. Language plays a big role in our lives, so to be able to play with that language, and form it to our own wants or needs may be very important. For this reason, writing or talking in true English is a positive finish in itself, in as a lot as it provides an other outlet for this need.
However there is additionally the further idea that Anglish is a recognition and a celebration of the English part of contemporary English. For, although it has borrowed hundreds and 1000's of words throughout its life, there still exists a real English core to English, a very powerful everyday words which no sentence or uttering might handle without. By stripping away the layers of borrowings, Anglish lets us higher respect that core and the function it plays in our language.
The very best way to search out out where a word comes from is to look it up in a dictionary. Most first rate desktop dictionaries will embody short etymologies for a lot of of their entries, which give a little knowledge of the place the word arose from, and how it was used or written in the past. Some online dictionaries have this knowledge as well, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com and Wiktionary. There are additionally dictionaries dedicated to word etymologies, which are a goldmine for knowledge about English words. The Online Etymology Dictionary is maybe the very best available online.
However these will only tell from where and when a word came into English, however not whether it must be thought 'borrowed'. Some immensely old and really fundamental words, reminiscent of 'cup' and 'mill', are indeed borrowed from Latin, yet nobody would say these words should not English. Conversely, words like 'thaumaturgy' and 'intelligentsia' are clearly not of English origin, and have been borrowed relatively lately.
The place to draw the line between English and 'borrowed' is yet an different space of personal choosing, and there are many views on this amongst Anglish proponents. A very broad rule says that anything borrowed from French, Latin and Greek in the last eight hundred years should be thought borrowed. A more discerning view would say that any word which was brought into English to fill a genuine want or hole in vocabulary should be kept, however these words borrowed to "adorn" or "enrich" the language however in reality push out current words, ought to be weeded.
Are there really that many borrowed words in English?
Yes. English is renowned for having borrowed so many words from different languages over the last thousand years. The core of English is Germanic, but only about 25% of the words in English immediately derive from such a root, and that includes these of Norse, Dutch, German and others, as well as English. That may sound like many, one in each four words, but not so much when one thinks that Latin and French each account for 29% of the English vocabulary. Greek yields an different 6% of words, with the last 10% being from different languages, derived from personal names, or simply unknown.
However, as mentioned earlier, the core of the English language still largely consists of English words, which makes an undertaking like Anglish possible.
When a word is taken out from English, the place do replacement words come from?
There are a lot of roots for words to replace these which have been removed from English. Sometimes, a word which is removed will have a commonly known English synonym already present. Words like 'quotidian' and 'illegal' can easily be switched for 'on a regular basis' and 'unlawful' without shedding which means or intelligibility. When there's not a readily available English word to be used, a new word have to be found or made. Some old or obscure words may be introduced back to life and reused; new words can be calqued from English morphemes utilizing the old word's sample; different times wholly new words, "neologisms," might be put collectively from existing words and affixes. None of those methods are proper or wrong, but each has its stead in making a wide and assorted lexicon for Anglish, and every is used in line with the context and particular wants of a word.
Website: https://anglish.org/
Forums
Topics Started: 0
Replies Created: 0
Forum Role: Participant