Anglish

created 2023-03-20 · edited 2023-03-20 · open in Roam

a version of english with latin & french & greek pulled out
I've found it makes words feel richer, denser,
anglish re-wordings of mine
- (I'm aiming to keep them transparent to english-speakers—to have them not seem like neologisms or jargon but just friendly phrases)
- withwork
  - (instead of "collaboration" or "synergy")
- flowing mood
  - (instead of fluid mode)
  - twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1624843567154835457
- seed-banking
  - (instead of semen retention)
- fit-finding
  - (not directly replacing a latinate term)
questions I have
- if the a- prefix is non-Germanic, wtf is the equivalent
  - for? forgo
  - seems like it literally only shows up in abandon tho so whatever
suffixes/prefixes
- -lore replaces
  - -ology
  - -istics
- -(l)edge seems fine
know & wit
- ~= kennen & wissen ?
  - > kennen means "to know, be familiar with"
  - > wissen means "to know a fact, know when/how
loosely thinking about John Vervaeke's
- 4Ps
- and wondering if we can just get all four as basic words!
  - english has know
  - anglish also has wit
  - scots has ken
- I mean it probably won't work but I would want that in a conlang or whatever
things I claim are valid anglish
- gene - recent coining anyway
  - can totally reconstruct
    - Old English cennan "beget, create," gecynd "kind, nature, race;" Old High German kind "child;" Old Irish ro-genar "I was born;" Welsh geni "to be born;" Armenian cnanim "I bear, I am born."
    - *gene- is just a PIE root in the first place

2 linked references

finding myself with a fondness for Anglish, albeit not wantonly
- twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1637902103380389888
- twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1637962884549578752
- I have some other tweets that explicitly name Anglish the subject, could collect a thread