I wasn't kidding

[swan_tower]

No, seriously, this short story is trying to kill me. It has taken me two. hours. to write about five hundred words, and that's with me saying "screw it, I'm going to let this turn into a synopsis, and then go back and flesh it out into an actual story later." By my calculation, it is going to take at least two more multi-hour sessions before I have something resembling a draft.

Note to the wise: do not, repeat, DO NOT attempt to write a short story in Anglish. I kind of want to light this thing on fire.

Comments

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

...So I read that wiki entry, and I still cannot for the life of me figure out just what Anglish is.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Read Uncleftish Beholding, then.
http://www.grijalvo.com/Citas/Peculiar_English.htm
It's using words that only have Anglo-Saxon roots, making up replacements for the purged words. Thing is this includes not just obvious compounds like 'astronomy' but more common words like 'round'.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0314/p10s02-comv.html is a less extreme version purging French, with the replacements in italics.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

What mindstalk said. Sorry; it isn't the clearest entry in the world, but it's what came easily to hand.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Do you have a wordbook of your wordstock, or are you making all your words yourself?

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I have one now (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0755211677), which is helping . . . a little. Mostly, though, it's me looking stuff up in the OED to see if it's Germanic in origin, and then figuring out alternatives if it is.