What the fish is anglish �
about 1,000 years ago, the french ruled over england and injected their culture into england. french became the language of the rich, whild old english became the language of the peasants. this caused english to become a weird mix of latin, germanic and french, completely fucking it up in my opinion. it's why the pronounciation doesn't make sense and why words like „beef“ or „interrogate“ exist.
like, usually, you would say „manual labor“, but in anglish, it's „handwork“. kind of how other germanic languages work; fusing words together to describe something. modern english kinda lacks this.
some examples:
- „glove“ becomes „handshoe“
- „pulmonary specialist“ becomes „lunghealer“
- „biology“ becomes „lifelore“
- „translate“ or „equilevant“ becomes „overset“
- „difference“ becomes „unsameness“
- „dictionary“ becomes „wordbook“
- „dentist“ becomes „teethdoctor“
- „science“ becomes „witship“ (wit means to know, its a real but rare word), and so on…
it makes speech much more honest, understandable and democratic. you dont need to go to a university to understand what „pusillanimous“ or „ophthalmology“ means. you just put alreadx existing words together and say „smallminded“ and „eyelore“.
you'd need to learn what „toy“ means, but in anglish, you know because it's a „plaything“. it's a thing, you play with it!
it basically revives what the fr*nch stole from us! but please make sure to use american spelling, it's more germanic than british :p honour is french, honor is the original latin word!
plus, it sounds like some fantasy rpg dialog, which is epic.
okay but what about þorn and eð
those are old letters! they were used up until the printing press; the printers came from europe and didnt have the letters, so they replaced it with th. „ðey“ just means „they“, for example!
historically, they were used interchangably, but i use þ for the voiceless th and ð for the voiced th.