Talk:The Anglish Plan

Here are some basic questions that are debated between different communities of Anglish online:

Whether Norse words count (ex. sleuth, meaning detective)

Whether Germanic words that came to English indirectly through French count, such as: Proto-Germanic -> Frankish -> Old French -> English (ex. war)

Whether Latin or French words borrowed before 1066 count (ex. drake, meaning dragon)

Whether Latin words borrowed into Proto-Germanic count (ex. butter)

Whether to translate words that are foreign in all other Germanic tongues (ex. kangaroo becomes leapdeer, though there is no precident in other germanic languages)

Whether theoretical backformation is ok (ex. lava in Icelandic is hraun, adapting that backwards into Proto-Germanic and then forewards again into Modern English we get rown)

Whether it's ok to keep words that come from Latin or French but are used in other Germanic tongues (ex. stuff, from Old French estoffer) (this also comes from Proto-Germanic, related to the English word stop)

Whether it's fine to split one word into two (ex. rich for empire, rike for state)

Whether to trust Old English Wikipedia for words to use (ex. ewing for video, sway for audio, bleefowl for parrot)

Whether to keep Germanic words borrowed from modern languages that were after 1066 (ex. shark, Dutch, Deutsch)

All these questions and a lot more must be put to rest in order to standardize a main version of Anglish, though any disagreements should, in my point of view, be allowed to exist as simply dialects of Anglish.

Brabeusa (talk) 01:46, October 22, 2018 (UTC)