Re:What Is Anglish?
by legostormtroopr on Monday February 27, 2023 @09:27PM
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Its odd that you immediately paint this as racist, when it is exactly what the "Académie Française" does and has done for centuries.
And, if you read into the site even a little they define Anglish inborn terms as those in use prior to 1066 after the Norman Conquest [1] of England.
This is an innocent conlang designed to highlight some interesting historical circumstances around a bloody and protracted conquest. That some people with Inborn Anglish ancestory have an interest in their own history is innocent and given current trends, perfectly reasonable.
I would suggest you examine you own biases before jumping to conlcusions, as I doubt you would make the same statements against any other culture seeking to document their history.
how are you defining “racist”?
Let's start with this: "Anglish is a kind of English which prefers native words"
So what exactly is "native"? Before Roman Britain - the Iron Age, the inhabitants of these islands generally speak Brythonic languages which are quite similar to each other. We have a Greek bloke called Pytheas who attests that. Those languages become modern Brythonic languages - Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Cumbric etc.
Post Romani: Britain has always only been a day sail or less from a lot of places so loads of people have rocked up here across the ages.
English happily subsumes all and any other languages and notions. We now need to look at Tik Tok, Facebook and the like to see how fast the language is evolving.
Anglish is racist and a relic.