Re: Reinventing NATLANGs

Hi Michael,
I think it would look a lot like English, but with all or most of the
French/Latin/Greek loan words removed ;-)
No, I don't think that borrowing from French or Norse affected the overall
sound development, except for maybe allowing a few combinations that would
hitherto have not been possible and allowing for subsequent development of
these (I'm thinking of /Z/ here).
Benct, myself and another guy started such a project about, has it already
been two years, ago? I don't know. We were fairly active at the beginning,
but we couldn't agree where it was going and we each enjoyed ourselves too
much following out whims and ideas that we just couldn't get it moving. What
we got up till then was quite interesting though. We were 'ageing' Old
English expressions and compounds, phrases and idioms and giving them modern
English form. We also used other West Germanic, sometimes also Icelandic,
templates to coin new words for concepts where English has Romance
vocabulary beyond the usual internationalisms.
We also worked on orthography and had, as was to be expected very differing
views on the topic.
A project like that does teach you a lot about historical English phonology!
Dan

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From: Michael Adams
"How about a conlang that is English but with all or most of the
French/Latin/Greek out of it?
Would it look alot like Dutch or Frisian or what?
Mike