What Is Anglish?
I have had a lot of fun with Anglish in the past, composing poetry and even attempting to write school assignments in it.<p>However as I've grown as a linguist, I now disagree with the direction that they've taken it, but I understand why.<p>That is, the Anglish project uses cognates and sometimes inventions from Old English, Dutch and German because most linguists (and people) consider English a West Germanic language, most closely related to German and Dutch, and more distantly related to Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.<p>But I'm convinced that Faarlund is correct [1]; that Old English is not the <i>only</i> ancestor of Modern English, and that actually Modern English is more like a creole of Old English and Old Norse.<p>So I'd like to see an Anglish project that instead uses the Scandinavian languages for word replacements.<p>[1] "English as North Germanic [Language]" <a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/ldc/6/1/article-p1_1.xml?language=en" rel="nofollow">https://brill.com/view/journals/ldc/6/1/article-p1_1.xml?lan...</a>