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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 72 points 7 months ago (22 children)

Isn't English the amalgamation of like 5 different languages and if everything were broken down like this, English would sound just as ridiculous?

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is a form of English called Anglish which tries to remove all non-germanic words, I think some examples are wordbook for dictionary, becleft for atom, sourstuff for oxygen and birdlore for orinthology

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