Interesting link of the day: The Anglish Moot, a Wikipedia-like wiki written using only words of Anglo-Saxon/Germanic origin and excluding loanwords from languages like French or Latin. It leads to interesting things like the article on The Banded Folkdoms of Americksland, or "translations" of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" and MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
Related: Uncleftish Beholding, or atomic theory written using only English words of Germanic origin.
I never realized how much I love words with non-Germanic etymologies. Those were fun to read, but it would drive me crazy to have to speak like that.
Related: Uncleftish Beholding, or atomic theory written using only English words of Germanic origin.
I never realized how much I love words with non-Germanic etymologies. Those were fun to read, but it would drive me crazy to have to speak like that.