LCatala
Minstrel
"Anglish" is a project to remake the English language while replacing all loan words (or at least all non-germanic words) with native equivalents. I'm rather indifferent to the idea, I think English is fine as it is, but I did recently find something it was useful for.
In my writing, I've always had a tendency to use big words (and I mean, always, my teachers were commenting on this in middle school). Since then, I've slowly learned to make my writing more natural — not dumb it down, but rather learn the proper time and place to use big words, and replace them with simpler words otherwise. It's not always easy, especially in English: my native language is French, which means that while many words I know naturally exist in both languages, words that are normal in French are often "bigger" words in English.
And for that I found that the Anglish lexicon can be pretty helpful (specifically the "attested" column; the words in the other column are invented). For instance, I had been looking for a simpler word related to "balance", "equilibrium", and only after looking up the Anglish lexicon was I reminded of "steady", which is exactly what I needed.
I don't suggest using this for very common words like "face" or "damn" that happen to be of French/Latin origin, but I found this was a neat tool for more elaborate words.
In my writing, I've always had a tendency to use big words (and I mean, always, my teachers were commenting on this in middle school). Since then, I've slowly learned to make my writing more natural — not dumb it down, but rather learn the proper time and place to use big words, and replace them with simpler words otherwise. It's not always easy, especially in English: my native language is French, which means that while many words I know naturally exist in both languages, words that are normal in French are often "bigger" words in English.
And for that I found that the Anglish lexicon can be pretty helpful (specifically the "attested" column; the words in the other column are invented). For instance, I had been looking for a simpler word related to "balance", "equilibrium", and only after looking up the Anglish lexicon was I reminded of "steady", which is exactly what I needed.
I don't suggest using this for very common words like "face" or "damn" that happen to be of French/Latin origin, but I found this was a neat tool for more elaborate words.