User blog comment:Wordworthyman/Anglish: Its Strengths and Its Weaknesses/@comment-32276655-20170823231844/@comment-32628745-20170824103021

Yes, people don't understand Anglish words all to often, however, Anglish words that are archaic or were used at least up until Shakespeare's time are still ok to use in writing, in my opinion, however, for many English words, the meaning is not always immediately obvious. Like underseek for example the meaning"to look under". Although this word already exists in the English language, it is very rare. But this is fine to use in my opinion because it is modern word, but it should be noted that this word is quite rare, but not so rare as not to use it. Many words like this are learned for formal situations, and since people learn Latin words for specific uses all the time, I see no reason why not to use it except for its rarity of course. Sometimes Anglish words like your example Sickhouse have immediately obvious meanings "a place where sick people are". At first hearing, people might just consider it slang, although still understanding it. Other times, Anglish words artifically processed from Old English like Olvend for Camel are completely unintelligible to modern English speakers. Other times Anglish words can be understood or partially understood, but sound quite odd, such as ''Throughsighty. ''This sounds very odd, but the meaning might be guessed as "see-through" or "something that can have sight go through it". The connection is not always immediate, but words like these are likely to used to riducle Anglish simply because they sound so odd. I think that calques from other languages are fine, but sometimes they sound really wierd, but when doing translations of languages based on the common roots, it doesn't always turn out sound "normal". I suppose a few small changes would need to be done so that some words don't sound so strange. The fewer strange sounding words Anglish has, the less likely it is to be riducled. Oh, and the last point, when I said to make  " more synonyms for already existing English words in the Anglish way regardless of if they from Latin or Old English," I meant that making another Anglish word for an English word such as Understand is just as good as making another Anglish word for the Latin word ''Comprehend. ''The more the merrier. I think maybe Forstand is a good translation for this as it has historically been used to mean both Understand and Comprehend however, it always seems to have a immediate meaning of "stand for" as well. So by taking both the old meaning of Forstand " Comprehend" and the new meaning "Stand for" meaning to support, represent, defend, or tolerate, this word could mean a supportive kind of understanding, an emotional understanding. So Forstand could be used to mean: to understand someone on an emotional level; to understand someone's feelings; to come to an understanding; and basically to understand with the heart rather than the mind. Some other languages in the world make this kind of distinction, and with Anglish, this distinction can just be added to English. This is why I think Anglish has so much potential, but I do see room for improvement with some of the ways Modern Anglish is right now.