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As are most of English's advanced vocabulary
I didn't know score meant twenty till I was 15
The English word order is also from Old Norse
In Old English it was SOV not SVO
Old English had declension so order didn't really matter
And could change for emphasis
I liked the idea of English linguistic purism until I went on their little wikia and it was basically Germanic LARPing
We wuz saxons n shiet
They called it Anglish or something
Anglish.wikia? It is in no way representative of the Anglish project ,
Oh
The Anglish community is far, far from unified
Also I find the Anglish wikia too simply grammatically
I'd prefer a return to the rich declension systems of Anglo Saxon
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
Make it at least 2 genders like Dutch
They have de and het
Ænglisc had se, seo, þæt
Then learn old English. English can drop foreign vocabulary and resurrect some old but it can't go back to declension
So Anglish would basically be Afrikaans then?
No genders, no cases
Iirc not even verb conjugations
No
Scandinavian languages have dropped verb conjugations as well from what I've seen
Or everyone could just be required to learn latin so we don't need to worry about bringing back old english.
Jag heter, du heter, han heter, etc.
Anglish would be what English is, but dropping French and Latin words and preferring Germanic words
It worked well for a long time.
Yeah but without a revival of gender and/or cases and verb conjugations, you basically have something similar to Afrikaans
Hardly
English itself is nothing like Afrikaans
A West Germanic language with a ridiculously simple grammar
English already has simple grammar
Dutch may have lost cases but at least retains 2 genders
De and het
nigga you speak English
Anglish is as simple as saying middle instead of center and stuff like that
Tung instead of tongue
Headman instead of captain
Or tung/tongue instead of language