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The Anglish Times: the news in Anglish, a kind of English without borrowed words from other tongues
(theanglishtimes.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2024
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But there are heaps of borrowed words in that text? "Friendly" stems from old germanic, so does "land"... how is there no etymologist checking for "foreign" words? Oh wait, english is but a mix of bad french and bad german... But still. I expected a bit more effort to replace "foreign" words...
English is a Germanic language, so Germanic words are fine, foreign just means latin, greek, french...
Not all Germanic words; it depends on how they found their way into the vocabulary. For example something like "sky" should be still removed, even if Germanic - because it's an Old Norse borrowing.
Old Norse evolved from Proto-Norse, which was a Proto-Germanic dialect. It's still Germanic.