chatwiththeclouds:

succ-orb:

Anglish is honestly the funniest thing to me

basically it’s just English with all the non-germanic-based words taken out for the sake of “linguistic purity” (yeah I know)

A lot of words in English are Germanic-based but a lot of them aren’t. Anglish uses archaic language or created words to get around those non-germanic words. Some of them can be pretty weird.

For instance:

• The word “Avocado” has Romance roots so that’s a no-go in Anglish. In Anglish you’d call it a “Butter Pear”.
  
• The prefix “inter” is based on Latin and Old French so you’d have to call the “Internet” the “world wide web” or the “twixtnet” instead.
  
• The word “Physics” is Greek-rooted so you’d have to call it “Worldken” instead.
  

Obviously Anglish is a ridiculous idea and I don’t think anyone really treats it seriously. It’s kind of interesting to have word etymology drawn to one’s attention like this, though.

Bonus stale meme: here are the lyrics for We Are Number One “translated” into Anglish.

Well its called the twixtnet now

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