User blog:Wordworthyman/Anglish: Its Strengths and Its Weaknesses

Hi everyone, I'm Wordworthyman. I just want to hear your opinions on the future of Anglish and it's use in the modern world.

From my standpoint, I see Anglish as mainly a concept that can be used for fun and for learning old and interesting words, but unfortunately, it can't be used much outside the Anglish community because of all the old and new words that this website uses simply confuses people unfamilar with them.

However, I do think that there are some very strong aspects of Anglish. For starters, it brings enriches our language and brings new words in the English vocabulary. This is by far one of my favourite parts of the Anglish moot. Reviving words is fantastic and brings back the dead words from the ancient Anglo-saxons and their rich wordhoard and wordstock. However, as much as I like new words being added, I am not so fond of removing words from the already exist English language, but in cases of using Anglish for fun, I certainly follow this rule. Another criticism I think might be good is to add more synonyms for already existing English words in the Anglish way regardless of if they from Latin or Old English. More words means a richer vocabulary in every way

Aside from adding synonyms to the English vocabulary, Anglish also creates/reviving/bringing out words for things that don't already have names, or things with names unbeknownst to the majority of the people. The Anglish Wordbook is very good with this part, adding new words such as Thoughtware (a technology which allows humans to communicate with a computer and between themselves without a keyboard, mouse or other mechanical device). Not only is this word easily understood as it uses a common word "thought" and a common suffix "-ware"  it is also the only word of its kind that I can even think of that has this meaning. Although this meaning could be expressed as a long noun chain such as thought-control technology, it seems needlessly wordy and might be confusing as some people could think it means "technology used to control other's thoughts" or something similar to mind control.

So, as I see it, Anglish is a small, but certainly interesting community of wordsmiths who are enrichening the English everyday with their witty words. I can see some of these words being very useful in the future, and definitely for making the English language a much bigger, richer, or more expressive language than it already is.

So, what do you guys think?