User blog comment:Wordworthyman/New words and senses/@comment-33593065-20171108015613

In Old English there's 'elreord', for "of strange speech, foreign speaking, barbarous". Source:  https://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/  I don't see a specific translation for 'el' in the website corpus, but I do see ME "ellendish" referred to, which is a combination of 'el' "foreign" and 'lendish' "of (or pertaining to) a land (or country)". We might say 'otherlandspeech", but the Germanic reperatory already has a specific word 'ōþer' (OE), which gives the rational for leaving 'other' in Anglish, and this does not often have the meaning "foreign".

I think that a distinction between writing and speaking (it's only 2-way, isn't it?) needn't necessarily be made in compounds unless the meaning is exclusive of the one or other.

To use the word 'moon' seems to me unnecessarily Asiatic: earlier speakers of Germanic languages regarded the moon as "otherworldly" not "other-landish". That brings to mind the MnE word 'outlandish', which originally lacked, in all probability, its metaphysical connotation. It also suggests to me that we might consider using the 'outlandish' in its original sense and opt for 'outlandspeech' and 'outlandwrit' for the Anglish neologisms we're looking for.

