User blog comment:Eðkee/My shifts/@comment-70.15.1.113-20180107013051/@comment-34075916-20180107015527

I have a different view on þe subject. My intent is to shape a fellowship online who uses a more Germanical English in all endeavours (e-mails, fanfiction, original fiction, et cetera) I once tried to make English in þe shape þat you seem to prefer yet found it too cumbersome and uncomely for my taste.

When I look at English as compared to þe oþer Germanical tungs, I see one þat has a paradigm unqie to it. German and Dutch influenced one anoþer, strengþening þe existance of some words and phrases mutually. German also had a raþer heavy clout on Danish, which in turn influenced þe oþer Nordic tungs, which already existed in þeir own paradigm. As English began on an island, cut off from þe tungs on þe mainland, it came into a one-of-a-kind shape. Þerefore, I hesitate when looking to þe oþer Germanical tungs for loanwords and loantranslations, as þey are so sundry to þose þat found use amongst þe English.

I've read þe works of Longfellow and Barnes as inspiration, but þey had þe behoof of living in a time when communication was much more interpersonal and þe written word was neiþer as codified nor as mean as it is today. We do not have þat behoof and, I feel, þat Anglish must, to an extent, respect English's own natural development as much as it develops artifically from English or risk alienating þose who could potentially use it in þe hereafter.

I do wholeheartedly repsect your heartfelt view on þe matter, but it is not one þat I share.