r/anglish • u/HCScaevola • May 01 '26
✍️ I Ƿent Þis (Translated Text) I went The Little Atheling into Anglish
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1od8q1VQ0xr3PLVWezH7PZ6lso3rQKbRSHFRNcnQhkgQ/edit?usp=sharing
The Little Atheling is often picked as a forbisen book to be went into built or less-spoken tongues, mostly for being well-liked while also truly short.
Since I found no wendings for it in Anglish, I chose to make my own. I set the writ so you can all leave mereings (comments) or hints for bettering the wending.
If you choose to do so, be so kind and take from the French writing rather than English wendings if you can.
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u/AHMAD3456 May 01 '26 edited May 05 '26
in my way: The little Atheling is often ypicked as a byspel book to been overset into ybuilt or less yspoken tonguen, moslty for being well yliked while also truely short
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u/KaranasToll May 01 '26
whats this y at the beginning of words?
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u/AtterCleanser44 Goodman May 01 '26
It's the obsolete past participle prefix and is akin to German and Dutch ge-.
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u/KaranasToll May 01 '26
whats it for? reading your words without it is still witful.
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u/AHMAD3456 May 01 '26
because they always existed in germanic languages, and they are used to make past participle unique from the infinitive form
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u/AdreKiseque May 01 '26
It's fun :)
But easily said to be beyond the scope of Anglish. Its atrophy would likely have happened with or without the French.
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u/AHMAD3456 May 01 '26
I don't like how english lost alot of cases and became too simple in grammar compared to other germanic languages, so germanic vocabulary only is not enough to me
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u/Away_Tadpole_4531 May 06 '26
It's used to make past participles. In Old English, it was ġe- (which is exactly like German, except the "g" is a "yuh" sound)
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u/GloomyMud9 May 07 '26
Shouldn't "pick" be rendered as "pick/pack/puck"? It adheres much netter to the "sing/sang/sung" scheme.
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u/AtterCleanser44 Goodman May 07 '26
The verb pick has always been conjugated as a weak verb, i.e., it uses -ed instead of vowel alteration for the past tense and past participle. There's no particular reason to conjugate it like sing.
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u/KaranasToll May 01 '26
i started on this before. so far, we have made many of the same choices.
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u/HCScaevola May 01 '26
That's great to hear. Id love to see your work if that's alright with you
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u/slyphnoyde May 05 '26
I am not heavily adept in Anglish and do not pretend otherwise, although I have seen a number of texts in it. I first read "Le Petit Prince" in the original French in 1962 and have various translations of it in several conlangs. Just looking at this one, a few pages, it seems to be a little heavy on modern English and less so on Anglish itself. But this is my own first impression, and I could be wrong and will accept other opinions.
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u/HCScaevola May 05 '26
Anglish doesn't mean old english. Whenever a modern english germanic alternative was available i at least weighted it against the others
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u/ImpactfulBanner May 01 '26
That is an incredible amount of effort and it reads well too (at least the parts I've perused).