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remove foreign influences from english!

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-17 10:09

There's too many foreign words in English. I propose we remove them forever, kinda like Ataturk did with Turkish, but more thorough. I shall post exclusively using Anglo Saxon words once I get my etymological dictionary from home.

Name: Anonymous 2008-10-20 19:02

>There's too many foreign words in English. I propose we remove them forever, kinda like Ataturk did with Turkish, but more thorough. I shall post exclusively using Anglo Saxon words once I get my etymological dictionary from home.

Forbidden words in your speech:
foreign - outside
propose - ask
remove - get rid of
post - put up
exclusively - ???
etymological - ???
dictionary - word book

I'm trying to create English versions of German type compounds, but most often I have no idea what the English equivalent of a German word would be since its cognate has been chased out be French or Latin. T_T

>English is purely a bastardization and melding of the native celtic languages, latin from the Romans, the anglo-saxon german bastards, and the conquering french. There's no such thing as "pure" English.
It's still very possible and easy enough to identify the Latin Inkhorn words, and the ones that came via French also.

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