User:TheAngliscCween

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Why is Anglish Moot bad?
A number of reasons:


 * 1) Anglish Moot is an outdated, rarely edited Wiki, with little activity and improvements going on; the Anglish community thrives on Reddit and Discord instead.
 * 2) The administration of Anglish Moot is completely detached from the Anglish community - inactive on the Reddit, on the Discord, and hard to contact.
 * 3) Anglish Moot contains a lot of badly made words, unnecessarily calqueing German usage of prefixes (instead of native, English way of doing things), often confusing, often cartoonishly sounding, and sometimes ignoring real English words (be it dead or alive).
 * 4) The words on the Anglish Moot that are good (well made, or well revived) we've already added to our wordbook years ago, and I refer to point 1. again

What are the grounds for Anglish?
Everyone has a different one, but among these one can find:
 * 1) Ultimately making many of the connections between words more regular, sensible, and understandable. Right now there exist many seemingly nonsensical word pairs such as "king" and "royal", where the latter replaced the original English word "kingly"; or "cat" and "feline", where a language like German says "Katze" and "katzenartig", or Latin that says "félés" and "félínus".
 * 2) A lot of the "Anglish" words are in fact dialectal or archaic words that used to be common, but were replaced by a more "learned" French word, which to an extent gives a slightly more familiar, folky feeling. Though on the other hand, some Anglish alternatives survived better in the higher register than in common language, which can bring a poetic vibe here and there.
 * 3) Overall, it's a fun thought experiment, maybe even a game, that requires some linguistic knowledge.
 * 4) Many european languages did just that, such as German, Dutch, Czech, or Lithuanian. Why English would be worse?