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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Anglish is a form of puristic English where all French/Latin derived words (and often others) are removed from English, leaving just the germanic base. A lot of anglish words look like this

[–] wieson@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you'd wanna copy from German, qualitative could be highworthy.
And in anglish, you would've to get rid of "number" as well. Perhaps "tally" or something related is the stand-in (from Dutch taal and german Zahl).

dollar - taler - zahl

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A really great rundown of 'Anglish' is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMA3M6b9iEY

That whole channel is a goldmine of quirks, curiosities, and facts about English in general.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Robwords is a good channel, good to see it being recommended