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Reading out Old English like today's English?

In our timeline, we deal with Old English as a fremd tongue and learn to read it out as philologues think it would have been outspoken in yoretide. However, if you look at lands where an old form of their tongue kept being brooked in an unbroken tradition, they mostly read them out in the same way they speak out their tongue today. For a byspell, here's a quid from the book of Mencius written in Chinish writ:

>其至,爾力也;其中,非爾力也。

which (so runs the best learned guess of philologues) would have been outspoken in the writer's time as something like:

>*Gjə tjits, njəjʔ C-rjək ljajʔ; ɡjə k-ljuŋs, pjəj njəjʔ C-rjək ljajʔ.

However, in China in our time, a man from Beijing would read it out as:

>Qí zhì, ěr lì yě; qí zhòng, fēi ěr lì yě.

(One from Hong Kong would read it out as:

>Kèih ji, yíh lihk yáh; kèih jung, fēi yíh lihk yáh.

and one from Fujian would read it out as:

>Kî chì, ní le̍k iá; kî tiòng, hui ní le̍k iá.

which you may yeme ring a bit nearer but not much. Its meaning, by the way, is "that it reaches the mark is owing to your strength, but that it hits the mark is not owing to your strength".) If we did the same thing for English (which it seems likely to me that we would, if the written tradition of Old English was never broken off) we would read:

>Fæder ure, þu þe eart on heofonum, si þin nama gehalgod

as

>Father our, thou the art on heavenum, sie thine name a-hallowed.

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u/Terpomo11 — 1 day ago
▲ 42 r/anglish

What is the Anglish word for "cat"?

"Cat" is a word borrowed from Nubish, as that is whence came the housecat, even though alike deer have lived in Europe (inholding Britain) for a long time. What could we chell "cats" in Anglish? The websteads I wonly go to to find words yive me nothing.

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u/passengerpigeon20 — 3 days ago
▲ 10 r/anglish

What would you call often found mind illnesses in Anglish?

As the heading says, how would you call things like bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia and so on in Anglish?

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u/N-Y-B — 4 days ago
▲ 15 r/anglish

Is "pony" acceptable in Anglish?

Hello y'all. Would y'all see "pony" as an acceptable word in Anglish? According to Wiktionary, the word ultimately comes from Latin, but it was loaned into Scots from French and then came into English.

As Scots is another Germanic language, and because I don't think the word came in due to some sort of invasion, would it be considered Anglish? I'm asking this because I'm trying to translate Yankee Doodle, and I haven't found an alternative word for "pony."

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u/mapgameenjoyer1 — 5 days ago

Are folk somewhere having fun tonguecrafting a more Theedly French?

Say Late Romish was led more fully Theedward by the Franks. It would be like a bewithered* Anglish would it not? Do the yoretonguewise know enough to bethink its likeness? Are there fellowships in the Reckonerworld thinking about such things?

*"Inverted" for my Romish friends.

Sorry if my chosen words fall short of meadhallworthiness.

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u/Embarrassed_Guess337 — 4 days ago
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"Quickener" as Anglish for animator/cartoonist?

I have learned of late that the word "cartoon" comes from Attleyish beginnings, while "animator" comes from Leeden for soul. How would Anglish reckon "cartoon", for penstrokes on leaf, or for programs (maybe "program" needs an Anglish reckoning) on farseer or in film?

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u/TheDarkFloydChud — 7 days ago

I’m New!

Hi i’m new here and i’ve heard a little big about Anglish and how it’s English without the foreign influence in which started in 1066 with William I! I was hoping I could get help on where to find a full list of sort of words that are banned from Anglish due to the foreign influence as I was hoping to learn how to speak Anglish

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u/just_a_real_one — 6 days ago

The Anglish Alphabet

a /eɪ/

b /bi:/

c /ki:/ or /tʃi:/

d /di:/

e /'i:/

f /ɛf/

g /gi:/

h /heɪ/

i /aɪ/

j /jeɪ/

k /keɪ/

l /ɛl/

m /ɛm/

n /ɛn/

o /'oʊ/

p /pi:/

q /kaʊ/

r /ɑɹ/

s /ɛs/

t /ti:/

u /'aʊ/

v /vi:/

w /wın/

x /ɛks/

y /waɪ/

z /zɛd/

þ /θɔːn/

ð /ɛð/

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u/AHMAD3456 — 9 days ago
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Swambbob Boxslacks* headlinesong

Are ya ready kids?

Aye, Aye, Headman!

I can't hear you!

Aye, Aye, Headman!

OOOH

Who lives in a firapple under the sea?

SwambBob BoxSlacks!

Who's yellow and sucks all the water but he?

SwambBob BoxSlacks!

If seasidish twaddle is something you wish...

SwambBob Boxslacks

Then Drop on the Deck and Flop Like a Fish!

'SwambBob BoxSlacks'

READY!?

SwambBob BoxSlacks, SwambBob BoxSlacks, SwambBob BoxSlacks, SwambBob... BoxSlacks!!!

*Ordly words num from the Anglish Moot and went by me to be better in song. Also, I'm not fully sooth "box" is Anglish, as it was only borrowed from Latin into Or-West-Germanish and not the earliest Or-Germanish.

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u/passengerpigeon20 — 8 days ago

verb "want"

If we remove the norse influences too in english and keep modal verb "will" for future tense what will we use for a verb to want?

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u/AHMAD3456 — 10 days ago
▲ 22 r/anglish

A nightmare I truly had last night

I dreamt that I was browsing Wiktionary, and it told me that "seed" was a leanword from French and that the inborn English word would be "sing" instead. When I woke up I was aghast that I had been brooking it this whole time and was about to rush to aright the leaf for Ruddy Sparrow on the Anglish Moot unten I mimmered.

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u/passengerpigeon20 — 11 days ago
▲ 20 r/anglish+2 crossposts

Welcome to r/anglorsk

What's Anglorsk?

Anglorsk is a community based around creating a Norþ-Germanic conlang of English.

It's þere a standard?

No.

What can I do?

You, by þe meantime, can make your own Anglorsk conlang!

Have fun while creating, and be pon- i mean Anglorsk! :]

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u/PeaIntelligent3605 — 9 days ago
▲ 32 r/anglish+1 crossposts

If only we could bring back this verb instead of the Old French "doubt" life be easier.

u/falsoTrolol — 13 days ago

"People"/"The People" in Anglish?

So I've been trying to find a great name for a name for a culture founded and embodied by Human Beings who were Isekaied from Modern 21st century Earth in my Dark, Fantasy story and worldbuilding.

One of those who commented suggested that I go with the name "People" and/or "The People".

So I ask:

What is "People" and "The People" in Anglish?

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u/Silentguardsman007 — 11 days ago