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!Anglish@slrpnk.netEnglish literally started in Germany. What a load of nonsense.
Pre-Germany by a matter of many, many centuries, but I take your point. Also, specifically from an Anglo-Saxon, West Germanic fork that is considerably different from other forks, for example High German as I understand it. Also, English has also been a heavily Norman-French influenced language for almost a full millenium.
So bottom line, one might say that English is an olde French-West Germanic language with a load of influences from Latin, etc, that morphed over time just like most major languages do.
What really is the point in trying to artificially curate it, @vegafjord@slrpnk.net?
So its like https://zangendeutsch.de/ which the folks over on !ich_iel@feddit.org use. A purist version of the language.
On first glance it seems similar, but if you have a closer look at it, it actually is exactly the opposite of Zangendeutsch.
Zangendeutsch: Tries to remove all English based words from the language, only leaving the non-English ones.
Anglish: Tries to remove all non-English based words from the language, only leaving the English ones.
:-)