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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 today speak Trendy 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 means 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, but mostly it is to discover and experiment with the English language. This exploration is pushed for some by aesthetics, for the ethnic English by cultural needs, and yet for others it is only an interesting diversion or pastime. Language performs a big role in our lives, so to be able to play with that language, and form it to our own needs or desires may be very important. For this reason, writing or talking in true English is a positive finish in itself, in as much as it provides an other outlet for this need.
However there is also the further idea that Anglish is a recognition and a celebration of the English part of contemporary English. For, although it has borrowed thousands and hundreds of words all through its life, there still exists a real English core to English, an important on a regular basis words which no sentence or uttering might handle without. By stripping away the layers of borrowings, Anglish lets us better respect that core and the role it performs in our language.
The most effective way to seek out out the place a word comes from is to look it up in a dictionary. Most respectable desktop dictionaries will include short etymologies for a lot of of their entries, which give a little knowledge of the place the word arose from, and the way it was used or written in the past. Some on-line 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 On-line Etymology Dictionary is maybe the most effective available online.
But these will only tell from where and when a word got here into English, but not whether or not it must be thought 'borrowed'. Some immensely old and really basic words, equivalent to 'cup' and 'mill', are indeed borrowed from Latin, but nobody would say these words aren't English. Conversely, words like 'thaumaturgy' and 'intelligentsia' are clearly not of English origin, and have been borrowed comparatively lately.
Where to draw the road between English and 'borrowed' is but an different area of personal selecting, and there are a lot of views on this among Anglish proponents. A really broad rule says that anything borrowed from French, Latin and Greek in the last eight hundred years ought to be thought borrowed. A more discerning view would say that any word which was introduced into English to fill a real want or hole in vocabulary should be kept, but those words borrowed to "adorn" or "enrich" the language but in reality push out current words, should 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 past thousand years. The core of English is Germanic, but only about 25% of the words in English right this moment derive from such a root, and that includes these of Norse, Dutch, German and others, as well as English. Which will sound like many, one in every 4 words, but not so much when one thinks that Latin and French each account for 29% of the English vocabulary. Greek yields an other 6% of words, with the last 10% being from other languages, derived from personal names, or just unknown.
Nevertheless, as talked about 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 many roots for words to exchange those 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 simply be switched for 'on a regular basis' and 'unlawful' without shedding meaning or intelligibility. When there is not a readily available English word for use, a new word have to be found or made. Some old or obscure words may be brought back to life and reused; new words might be calqued from English morphemes using the old word's sample; other instances wholly new words, "neologisms," will be put together from present words and affixes. None of these strategies are proper or wrong, however each has its stead in making a wide and diversified lexicon for Anglish, and each is used according to the context and particular needs of a word.
Website: https://anglish.org/
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