jayles

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on: “Anglish”

And for all you diehard anglishers I confess to explaining t...

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Stanmund: twenty years ago I had no idea that "job" was coun...

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Ængelfolc: sorry I was not clear. The job ad meant 'independ...

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On a more serious note: It is perfectly true that there is a...

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Ængelfolc: I actually wrote: "SOMETIMES latinate words....."...

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AnWulf: After long years learning latin and french at school...

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AnWulf: Is there r:eally a nuance between despise and hate? ...

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AnWulf: sometimes we can use "seek to" instead of try: she s...

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Re battle: slaughter is modern form of Schlacht. Re compute...

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addyatg: "On my list, I would put ... and Icelandic" I didn'...

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addyatg: "Korean...*the* toughest language": this depends on...

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On the other hand reviving 'wont' as in I was wont to.... mi...

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Ængelfolc: sorry I was actually wondering how you would deal...

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there is an existing term "ready reckoner"; so something bas...

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Anwulf: in Hungarian "szamitogep" is use for computer; it me...

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Ængelfolc: could possibly find an idiomatic way to say in Ge...

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Ængelfolc: Good: and what about the yoga-speak; the names of...

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Part II Of course this doesn't mean that as Europeans we hav...

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PS lifted the hood on my made-in-Australia car and discovere...

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Well if you could get past the cyrillic script you would fin...

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The question of what foreign language people should learn is...

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I also notice they still want Russian as a language. Guess t...

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"Tonguecrafter" is also a tool attached to a four-cutter whi...

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1) it's the air that holds them up there not the sky; 2) "a...

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Help I need a cryptologist to decode that!...

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I notice that they are not seeking anyone fluent in Anglish ...

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So what about "install" which prima facie has latin roots, b...

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So what exactly is the origin of "Hounslow" which is on the ...

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ÆngelfolcL "Did you live in Germany before?" quite a while ...

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"mit einem ganz anderen Verhandlungsstil " better: bei einem...

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ferthfrith: "Thourough indeed, you should be proud.... but y...

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Ængelfol: Jedoch wenn man in Korea aufgewachsen sei, und an ...

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Ængelfolc: Ich bin selbst engstirnig, d.h. ich will dass die...

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"Wasn't it Luis II of Hungary? I thought "know thy enemy" wa...

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ferthfrith & Ængelfolc: You two have much common ground in c...

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The best way to influence the future of realworld english is...

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Re: economy; if we ditch "economy" then we also must ditch "...

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I notice "oversee" is making a comeback in job advertisement...

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Ængelfolc: yes and no. I think people hear and remember the ...

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"byspell" ?? ez biztosan valami mellekbubaj egy torpetol, ug...

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Nem vagyok mano, se mano-ul beszelek...

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"deedway" ??? halvany gozom sincs rola ...

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Ængelfolc: "How about stubborn for pigheaded? I always like ...

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"uncooperative = unhelpful, bullheaded, pigheaded, headstron...

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Ængelfolc: Well that gets my vote; it is as understandable a...

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Ængelfolc: As a matter of curiosity, why is it that we have ...

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Ængelfolc : yes I agree and "ongoing assessment outcomes" ac...

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Also: I wrote this: "Yes indeed hindsight gives us wisdom...

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or something to do with naval ratings......

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On the other main (ie hand) to teach "deterioration" I began...

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ferthfrith: nicely done though now I don't understand it. ...

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"Outside of the big cities, it is probably a lot less like w...

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"Language and culture have little to do with DNA," But what ...

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Ængelfolc: Situation normal; alternative words work for som...

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"I'd like you to meet..." is a nice anglish way of introduci...

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The pitfalls of etymology: a) session: sitting as in "after...

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Ængelfolc: "No, I am not a weapons dealer!! " Of course not,...

on: Usage rules for adverbs

Normal word order in English is Subject Verb Object Manner P...

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Ængelfolc: "All one needs is a thesaurus and an English etym...

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Ængelfolc: a) I introduced the topic of overpopulation to hi...

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Academia is a tough target; it would be easier to target bus...

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It is quite true that as children native speakers learn phra...

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Attacking the church and academia will indeed bring peril to...

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Ængelfolc: "most women in European countries are NOT helping...

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Incidentally where I live sheep used to outnumber humans by ...

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Yes the question remains however will the number of native e...

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Not quite yet, Shall we make it 2.5 billion at birth? Must ...

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It's funny how "hercog" is in hungarian and I never consciou...

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Ængelfolc: "Most folks wouldn't take (or have) the time," (t...

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"Old English is not really needed to speak true English." Oh...

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Ængelfolc: "Three-In-One" was the brand name of an lubricati...

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1) 'The holy trinity' -> 'the holy threesome' ???? (but...

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"BTW, most "academics" are Francophiles and Latinophiles." ...

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Or better "Ongoing and end rating benchmarks need to be mad...

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Ængelfolc: you should be proud of me: I have actually used "...

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Ængelfolc: your putforwards are better than mine. But how ar...

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"file" is of course "NO-NO" french when it pertains to a fil...

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So let us take an example: "place" eg your place or mine? J...

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Here is a list of latinate words included in the top 250 oft...

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Well I would love to make Anglish work, and there are good s...

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oops junction 19...

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One must not get obsessed by immigration issues, for we all ...

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Ængelfolc: one approach to Anglish would be to look at the n...

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Ængelfolc: "Has this happened where you live?" Immigration i...

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Ængelfolc: Thanks for correcting the report on weath and nam...

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Ængelfolc: I must be halfway extinct then: at my local shopp...

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And finally finally while we all squabble over the language,...

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finally a recent report in England stated that William's mat...

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To continue with the issues: 1) Target market: who is Angli...

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Stanmund: yes I meant Anglo-normans or whatever you call Wil...

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@Ængelfolc: Anglish as i understand it is a language for "pu...

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Ængelfolc: "Intransitive verbs are the only English verbs th...

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Stanmund: sorry about the moniker: it was my mother's fault ...

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Ængelfolc: re will/would: thanks, what really interests me i...

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Ængelfolc: I notice that Danish uses "will/would" like Engli...

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Stanmund: Frankly the best way to learn a language is go the...

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Ængelfolc: Possibly you are not yet fully aware of how globa...

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Ængelfolc: Oh dear, I must have baited you again! I am most ...

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Today's horror words that I had to explain off the cuff: "et...

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Ængelfolc: "real heritage" : I was teasingly referring to Ce...

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