> In this world, lamentation is sorrowword, unanimous becomes sameheart and acceptable is replaced with thankworthy. The US Declaration of Independence would be the ‘Forthspell of Selfdom’ while Alcoholics Anonymous renamed as The Unnamed Overdrinkers.
> In Anglish, theology would be godlore. rhetoric is speechcraft. doctors would be healers, journalists newsmen, and status-signalling would be rankmarking. A rodent is a gnawdeer while a comedian is a laughtersmith.
Exquisite. What a loss that those aren't common now.
It's far from clear that these "missing" words were ever common (with the likely exception of "healers"). Anglish is all about extrapolation over 1000 years of history, which is a tricky game to play.
Latin always gets badrapped when English people talk about how practical and clear Germanic equivalents would be, but Romance languages also sound like this to Romance speakers.
Modern English is just particularly goofy, young, and not conservative, especially in its American variant. We rankmark by accumulating more exotic words with more exotic vowels, until the vocabulary is absurdly large and redundant.
> In Anglish, theology would be godlore. rhetoric is speechcraft. doctors would be healers, journalists newsmen, and status-signalling would be rankmarking. A rodent is a gnawdeer while a comedian is a laughtersmith.
Exquisite. What a loss that those aren't common now.