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2018-11-10 20:00:28 UTC  

As are most of English's advanced vocabulary

2018-11-10 20:00:30 UTC  

I didn't know score meant twenty till I was 15

2018-11-10 20:00:45 UTC  

The English word order is also from Old Norse

2018-11-10 20:00:57 UTC  

In Old English it was SOV not SVO

2018-11-10 20:01:22 UTC  

Old English had declension so order didn't really matter

2018-11-10 20:01:28 UTC  

And could change for emphasis

2018-11-10 20:01:31 UTC  

I liked the idea of English linguistic purism until I went on their little wikia and it was basically Germanic LARPing

2018-11-10 20:01:40 UTC  

We wuz saxons n shiet

2018-11-10 20:01:59 UTC  

They called it Anglish or something

2018-11-10 20:02:00 UTC  

Anglish.wikia? It is in no way representative of the Anglish project ,

2018-11-10 20:02:06 UTC  

Oh

2018-11-10 20:02:10 UTC  

The Anglish community is far, far from unified

2018-11-10 20:02:22 UTC  

Also I find the Anglish wikia too simply grammatically

2018-11-10 20:02:36 UTC  

I'd prefer a return to the rich declension systems of Anglo Saxon

2018-11-10 20:02:38 UTC  

I would consider myself a proponent of Anglish and the Wikia is a crappy pet project by a tiny group of people with terrible ideas

2018-11-10 20:02:48 UTC  

Make it at least 2 genders like Dutch

2018-11-10 20:02:51 UTC  

They have de and het

2018-11-10 20:03:09 UTC  

Ænglisc had se, seo, þæt

2018-11-10 20:03:13 UTC  

Then learn old English. English can drop foreign vocabulary and resurrect some old but it can't go back to declension

2018-11-10 20:03:35 UTC  

So Anglish would basically be Afrikaans then?

2018-11-10 20:04:13 UTC  

West Germanic language with no declensions

2018-11-10 20:04:29 UTC  

No genders, no cases

2018-11-10 20:04:34 UTC  

Iirc not even verb conjugations

2018-11-10 20:04:40 UTC  

No

2018-11-10 20:04:53 UTC  

Scandinavian languages have dropped verb conjugations as well from what I've seen

2018-11-10 20:04:53 UTC  

Or everyone could just be required to learn latin so we don't need to worry about bringing back old english.

2018-11-10 20:05:03 UTC  

Jag heter, du heter, han heter, etc.

2018-11-10 20:05:04 UTC  

Anglish would be what English is, but dropping French and Latin words and preferring Germanic words

2018-11-10 20:05:11 UTC  

It worked well for a long time.

2018-11-10 20:05:47 UTC  

Yeah but without a revival of gender and/or cases and verb conjugations, you basically have something similar to Afrikaans

2018-11-10 20:05:54 UTC  

Hardly

2018-11-10 20:06:02 UTC  

English itself is nothing like Afrikaans

2018-11-10 20:06:07 UTC  

A West Germanic language with a ridiculously simple grammar

2018-11-10 20:06:19 UTC  

English already has simple grammar

2018-11-10 20:06:29 UTC  

Dutch may have lost cases but at least retains 2 genders

2018-11-10 20:06:33 UTC  

De and het

2018-11-10 20:06:42 UTC  

nigga you speak English

2018-11-10 20:07:04 UTC  

Anglish is as simple as saying middle instead of center and stuff like that

2018-11-10 20:07:11 UTC  

Tung instead of tongue

2018-11-10 20:07:22 UTC  

Headman instead of captain

2018-11-10 20:07:25 UTC  

Or tung/tongue instead of language