> 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.
This reminds me of Poul Anderson's "Uncleftish Beholding" [1] which is an attempt to explain atomic science without words derived from French, Latin, and Greek.
[1] https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/110/docs/uncleftish-beh...
When you write a whole essay like that it's more than a bit ridiculous, but the same idea on a smaller scale can work very well rhetorically. For example, take this section from Churchill's notorious speech:
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
every word except "surrender" has an Anglo-Saxon root.
Wow, that's even harder to understand than Randall Monroe's Thing Explainer [0].
BTW, as the wikipedia page notes, Poul was unable to completely remove french, since several words he needed had no modern english equivalent derived from the anglo-saxon.
The Experts have something to say about Poul's theory (I would gleefully take his side of the argument though):
As a English native and Dutch speaker, many of the Anglish words translate directly into Dutch, somewhat unsurprisingly. “Gnawdeer” is indeed “knaagdier” in Dutch, a very cute word I always find. :)
By the title I assumed this might be about C.