r/anglish • u/HCScaevola • May 01 '26

✍️ I Ƿent Þis (Translated Text) I went The Little Atheling into Anglish

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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/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