Talk:Englisc

How you managed to create a language based on Old English without distinction of long and short vowels?

I can't see Runic characters. Could you provide a picture of the Runic script?

You write: In foreign loanwords, the letter J indicates the same sound. You mean "hje" is a foreign word? — Hellerick 03:04, 17 January 2009 (UTC)


 * hje is derived from 'hie' the Old English third person, so it's a natural word. The only thing is that it'd look kind of funny writing hȝe, and that could get (from a writing perspective) confused with ȝe. So here, writing trumped written consistency. When writing, I was thinking that the H with a J tail would be an interesting form, similar to hwair for Gothic. --JJohnson 14:33, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

pretty interesting, i like it

let me ask you something: you did this for hobby or is serius, coz im interested in this, english is not enough germanic and this satisfy wath i like

aslo how i can learn it, im learning old english; that helps, right? and in wich ways i can contribuite to this?

aslo that "Sci-fi type setting of this world" is too geeky LLZ


 * I'll try to come up with some lessons or something to make learning the language easier. Right now most of it's grammar that I'm getting out there, with the vocab trickling in behind.  If you'd like to help, one way would be to get some friends to reply to this facebook post that a friend of mine wrote, trying to get the language onto FB.  --JJohnson 06:11, June 29, 2010 (UTC)

I pretty like your conlang, but after reading some more on Old English I noted that Englisc is almost indentical to it, like you just copied it's grammar. I'd also like to see picture of runic script, because my pc doesn't render it. ~ptaqu 30 july o9, 17:40 UTC
 * ptaqu:i dont noticed that, [nervious laughs] LLZ
 * it's pretty close to Old English grammar-wise, but it's only got 4 cases, and its past tense of strong verbs has only 1 vowel, not 2. It's much closer to German or Low German than to Old English in that respect.  Also, the word order is more German - "S V, þat S O V" is correct in this language, like in German.  Check out Plattdeutsch and this language is like that one, but with þ/ð put back. --JJohnson 06:06, June 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * it's pretty close to Old English grammar-wise, but it's only got 4 cases, and its past tense of strong verbs has only 1 vowel, not 2. It's much closer to German or Low German than to Old English in that respect.  Also, the word order is more German - "S V, þat S O V" is correct in this language, like in German.  Check out Plattdeutsch and this language is like that one, but with þ/ð put back. --JJohnson 06:06, June 29, 2010 (UTC)