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.However as I've grown as a linguist, I now disagree with the direction that they've taken it, but I understand why.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.But I'm convinced that Faarlund is correct [1]; that Old English is not the only ancestor of Modern English, and that actually Modern English is more like a creole of Old English and Old Norse.So I'd like to see an Anglish project that instead uses the Scandinavian languages for word replacements.[1] "English as North Germanic [Language]" https://brill.com/view/journals/ldc/6/1/article-p1_1.xml?lan...