[vitno]

Before anyone gets too worried, the Anglish community in my (limited) experience has been incredibly anti-racism/Nazi/etc.

They are just a bunch of linguistics nerds who are having fun imagining what English would have been without a Norman invasion.

In the same spirit, I'd recommend checking out the Uncleftish Beholding. Although I think it predates the modern Anglish community, it's an attempt to describe Quantum Mechanics with Latin/French derived words.

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/110/docs/uncleftish_beh...

[triyambakam]

Yes, every time I've brought up Anglish to someone they think it must be some white-supremacist project. I've never come across that in the nearly 20 years I've known about Anglish. It is, as you say, a project from linguists and language nerds.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

> The Anglish project is intended as a means of recovering the Englishness of English and of restoring ownership of the language to the English people.

https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/What_is_Anglish%3F

When I first came across Anglish I thought it was a really fun linguistic idea. Then last week I came across the above. Fuck no.

[vitno]

The fandom is an unmoderated site and does not reflect the general community. Racists have edit buttons too unfortunately. If you look at the edit history of the page it'll tell a story of far-right trolls attempting to rebrand it in recent years.

https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/What_is_Anglish%3F?type=revi...