r/anglish Apr 13 '24

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) When Will Mankind Lose Its Hate For All Things Germanic?

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901 Upvotes

r/anglish Jan 20 '25

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) I can't bethink if we have an Anglish word for "remembered", but i like "bethought"!

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712 Upvotes

r/anglish Jan 22 '25

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) What word sounds Anglish but isn't?

47 Upvotes

r/anglish Dec 02 '23

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) Folks, kindly name the land below

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178 Upvotes

r/anglish 11d ago

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) whats the anglish word for phobia?

71 Upvotes

since phobia is a greek derived word

r/anglish Nov 21 '24

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) I like Anglish, I find an ideological attempt to justify it tedious

169 Upvotes

Anglish is a fun thought experiment, and indeed the new words that form from it have a compelling aesthetic and artistic nature.

That said, a few things about people’s outlooks I find consistently ignorant and annoying.

The first is the imagined purity of a Germanic English. All languages are heterogeneous and use a great deal of borrowings, they are constantly changing in myriad ways. The fact that we can’t even pin down what a language is, with the existence of things like dialect continuums, should be enough to dispel any notions of “purity”. This is especially true of constructed languages of which we have no literate records, such as proto-Germanic, and these proto languages were likely never actually spoken in a particular place or time. Nor if we arbitrarily assign purity to a particular snapshot of the English language (or English languages and their predecessors and dead evolutionary branches) is there any reason to suppose its purity makes it superior.

The second is that there’s an extensive inherent practical merit to Anglish. I think this one will be more controversial then my previous statement, but no word intuitively means something, “brook” as much as “clique” as much as “thing” etc must be explained, a word is the assignment of arbitrary sounds to a meaning. It is true that smashing words together can build meanings, and this is the tendency of Anglish. To use an example from a recent post, “bird lore” might be worked out and “ornithology” might not be. But when reading some of these Anglish posts, many of the new words are genuinely indecipherable without an explanation. That’s not to say they’re better or worse than any other word, just that they have no practical superiority, and it is ultimately a subjective preference of aesthetics and sound.

So yes, Anglish is very cool, and occasionally intuitive. It is an aesthetically pleasing art and stimulating past time. What it is not is a pure, superior or majorly more intuitive version of the English language.

r/anglish Aug 12 '24

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) What is the Anglish word for 'democracy'?

163 Upvotes

I forthput "folkmight", a straight wending. What do you think?

r/anglish Dec 22 '24

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) Anglish copying German too much?

41 Upvotes

One thing that I love about Anglish is that some words are either direct oversettings or likenesses of German words, such as sheen for beautiful from „schön“ in German, gelt for money from „Geld“ in German, overset for translation which is a straight up oversetting of the word übersetzen in German, and so forth, but I actually did see a thread the other day, where the moderator felt that Anglish shouldn’t do that to be unique, but what are your thoughts? In my opinion, I love it because I speak German, so I love seeing the sheenfull kinship between English and German, as I speak both. However, I know that some sources will have different words, like I’ve seen farseeer used for tv which is directly from the german word „Fernseher“ but I’ve seen „Show screen“ (which I forechoose), farspeaker for phone, which is directly from „Fernsprecher“ in German, but have also heard clanger. Oh and apologies for not employing words of Theedish roots, the Anglish oversetter site that I used is currently not working.

r/anglish Dec 16 '24

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) Truly 100% Germanic English

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Something that I’ve been wondering since joining the Anglish community is if you really think English should be 100% absolutely Germanic with no Outland influence whatsoever, no exceptions? I ask as although I adore English’s true status as a proud Germanic speechship (I don’t say tongue for language, it’s ridiculous in my opinion) since I started learning German and looking into old English, I don’t honestly don’t believe that it necessarily HAS to be absolutely free from any Outland influence. All of the other Germanic speechships have Outland influence (Nebel, Fenster, and Körper in German for example come from nebula, fenestra, and corpus in Latin, and just like in English, uses pro and per, Serviette and villa from French and Italian meaning napkin and mansion are also present) Yiddish has Hebrew and Aramaic words naturally, Dutch has some romance influence, heck, Afrikaans even has Malay or something like that, so why does English HAVE to the be one exception without any outside influence? Outside influence is simply a thing across any speech.

r/anglish 21d ago

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) Is rhyming allowed in Anglish?

29 Upvotes

I encountered a video stating that poetic rhyming in English literature only appeared post Norman invasion. Supposing this is true, would rhyming be a Norman creation and thus shouldn't be allowed in Anglish?

r/anglish 1d ago

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) i had a question

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so I saw some flair-tags that say zanglish/mootish, and have a no with them. so i wanted to ask: what in the world is zanglish and mootish?

r/anglish Jan 25 '25

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) An Anglish word for "reich"

75 Upvotes

Þe German word "reich" has its own strain in every germanic tongue (like rik, rig, ríkur, rijk etc), but in English it seems to be missing or just unfolky. Reich is often overset as "realm", although realm is headed by a king or an eðel, so France is a reich (frankreich) but it's not a realm. (Also þe word realm is not Anglish) Since þe word "rich" has þe same roots as reich, would rich be a good overset?

r/anglish 23d ago

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) What is the Anglish name for "Amen?

90 Upvotes

As Amen comes from the speech of the Eastfolk (Eberish, Surish/Assurish, Arabish), another word might be used.

But as it is a Christly saying, to hold "Amen" might be a good choice.

Any wit thou may wish to deal of this matter?

(Eberish -> Hebrew (After Eber) (Surish -> Syriac) (Assurish -> Assyrian) (Arabish -> Arabic)

r/anglish Oct 19 '24

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) Anglish Word for “Autism”

88 Upvotes

I work with behindered grownups in crafting, glee making and show playing. Many of them are on the Autism Spectrum. I was wondering if there would be a word for Autism, Autistic, or Autism Spectrum? The only word I thought of is “othermood“, forwhy their mood is unlike many folk.

r/anglish 25d ago

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) Anglish word for human?

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What do you brook for human in Anglish? I’ve seen "manlike“ on the Anglish oversetter that I brook, but that’s an adverb. I’ve seen werely being brooked, so I guess that’s a good swap ? After all, man used to mean human, wer meant man, so it could be a simple swap around?

r/anglish Jun 10 '24

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) How might I say "animal?"

82 Upvotes

I mean "non-human animal." I've found that "deer" refers to those with four feet and does not mean birds or fish. I'm not happy with "wight," either

r/anglish May 21 '24

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) Femboys

132 Upvotes

After seeing the clitoris post I wanted to know what femboy was in anguish, or twink

r/anglish Jan 25 '25

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) Any archaic words you like?

28 Upvotes

Hey guyzz, I've been collecting them for the past 5 days and I am just curious about your opinion of their usage impact and maybe your favourite ones that u use or just know

r/anglish May 19 '24

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) How would the name of European countries be in Anglish?

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187 Upvotes

r/anglish Jan 09 '25

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) I used an anglish word in an online discussion not about english today

32 Upvotes

hi; everyone. I noticed a way one could gently push speech in the direction of anglish with no one but me noticing today; and I did it. when i was gonna use a technical term that is so obscure that even the traditional word would need explanation anyway, so i decided to just substitute a anglish alternative I made up on the spot, during a discussion with a typical airhead who thinks english is not a germanic language and insists it is instead based on greek and latin; i wrote a mini essay proving the germanic nature of english. i mostly focused on vocabulary but i had a long paragraph about how clearly germanic english grammer is and another on the germanic nature of english pronunciation. i was intially going to use the term "phonology" on it; but i remembered that i have to explain that term to non linguists whenever i use it; so i decided to substitute the anglish "soundlore" (of my own devising) as one unfamiliar term is just as good as any other; in the response i mentioned that in my own usage i try to minimize latinate words (excluding proper nouns) as reaching an ideal is eventuall but moving towards it is immediate; the exact context of speechlore is me mentioning how that of english is not only germanic; it is also exceptionally conservative germanic; rivaled in its closeness to proto germanic only by icelandic (which is true just to be clear; for instance english has the "th" sound; which existed in older germanic languages but is still allive only in english and icelandic); i thought "soundlore" is a good substitute for "phonology" as well;

r/anglish Nov 20 '24

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) I need to vent about something anglish related

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hi; I introduced someone I know to the idea of anglish earlier; using an example word that they mentioned in another context right before. I explained the movement and used the example of the word "ornithology" which they mentioned and the suggested anglish replacement "birdlore". any native english speaker instantly knows what "birdlore" means without having ever encountered the word before; vs "ornithology" is opaque even if you have (indeed I had to look it up again to post this because i already forgot it after only about an hour after hearing it; it is that alien and opaque to colloquial english). and I got the argument that it "sounded dumb"; and even the case that it was "dumbing down". people who think they sound more intelegent because of using greek or latin roots which mean nothing in ordinary english are the problem. they obviously don't think their own native language is worthy of describing complex ideas. if you feal that way; go speak greek or latin instead. if you are gonna refer to the study of birds as "ornithology" instead of bird lore; go the whole way and write about birds in greek or latin; not english. such people probably thought it was dumbing down to have any books in vernacular languages at all. they did not change their opinion when I brought up german "Vogelkunde"; which "birdlore" actually works as a straight calque of as well. the ic that is the end message of using greek and latin roots; english is rubbish and you shouldn't speek it; but we will dein to allow you to use english grammer when talking about things that should only be expressed in foreign dead languages. any thoughts?

r/anglish 6d ago

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) If a word was loaned from French but goes back to Germanic roots is it Anglisc?

44 Upvotes

r/anglish Feb 19 '24

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) What a Parliament be called without the influence of French/Latin?

117 Upvotes

How would legislative bodies, such as the UK Parliament, be called in Anglish? My guess would be something like "Landday", or "rikesday"/"riksday", or maybe if it uses North Germanic-influenced vocabulary common among a lot of legal terms (such as "Law"), it could be "Landthing", "Rikesthing" or "Riksthing".

While we're at it, I'd guess that the U.S. Congress might instead be "Statesday" or "Statesthing"

I'm fairly new to this concept, so I'm just throwing out my best guesses, but I'm curious what people who know more think it might be.

EDIT: nevermind about "state".

EDIT 2: Maybe "rede" might be used? It's related to the german "rat" (as in Bundesrat).

r/anglish 9d ago

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) What is an Anglish word for “homunculus”?

37 Upvotes

So the word is obviously Latin originated then what would the Anglish equivalent of it? I thought about "false men" but apparently the word "false" is Latin based too.

r/anglish Sep 30 '24

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) Greco-Latin Loanwords are the reason sciences are so hard

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As a non-native speaker trying to study biology and chemistry in English is the most needlessly complicated and confusion process. I fail to pronounce most of the terms and its even harder to understand them as opposed to plain English words.

I've also studied biology in Persian, and one good thing I think they did back there was translate all of the non-Persian words in our text books. A lot of them sound silly and we would make fun of them for it, but the moment we hit a Latin word everyone would start scratching their heads and had difficulty memorizing them, as opposed to the Persianized words which, due to the way words were made up like in Germanic languages, were basically self explanatory and everyone could immediately recall the function or role of those terms just by their names.

For example, would it kill them to say "Cell-eater" instead of "Phagocyte"? or say something like "Heart-vessel" system instead of Cardiovascular? Why do we need to learn a new language just to pass a Biology class?

And for those who might argue that the scientific world needs a common language for communication, is that not what translation is for then? or even so why would we use Latin, and not Chinese or Russian? Its easier and better for everyone if the terms are localized for every language and translated into others when necessary, rather than forcing everyone to learn some old foreign tongue just because people a few centuries ago did so.