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Purify English?
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So it seems like a lot of you don't seem to like the English language itself while liking literature.
Tell me, do you think English should purify itself to something more like the language in pic related?
I personally think it would be useful, would certainly be better on our already weird grammar.
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Here's a sample from Now
>Linguistic purism is above all an activity: a process of experimentation in which philological research is undertaken to craft the prototype of a new, "cleansed" standard for the language of concern. Before I outline my methodology of lexical purification, I will first try to define more clearly the goals of Anglo-Saxon linguistic purism.
To purifed
>Reirdlutterdom is above all a whatship: a foregang of overfinding in which weafloreforshing is undertaken to craft the ormake of a new, "cleansed" standhard for the reird at hand. Before I outline my atfareldlore of wordcleansing, I will first forseek to amark more swettly the goals of Anglesaxish reirdlutterdom.
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The non-Germanic aspects of English are the only good thing about the language.
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>>8091068
>beopulf
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>>8091333
You can blame the Irish for the letter yogh
>>8091310
May as well just switch to french or any other romance language then
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>>8091299
pig disgusting
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J.R.R. Tolkien was very interested in this. He consciously avoided using words in his fiction that entered the English language before 1500.
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