Tharfish

Tharfish is a dialect of English used on Conlang Wikia.

Phonology
Same as English, with the same dialect variation, except maybe an /x/, and /ʒ/ word-initially because French is so fancy and romantic.

Nouns
Nouns are exactly the same as the most common dialects of Modern English, but pronouns are different and are the same as Early Modern English.

Adjectives
A significant disctinction from Modern English beeth that all adjectives tharf now form comparatives and superlatives by adding the -er or -est ending, e.g. 'More beautiful' is now 'Beautifuler' and 'Most beautiful' is now 'Beautifulest'

Verbs
Verbs are declined as in Early Modern English.

http://www.shakespeareswords.com/Verb-forms

'''A significant disctinction from Modern English beeth that modal verbs tharf be conjugated in the same way as the other verbs. In addition, modal verbs have infinitive forms, e.g "To tharf". This aids in forming simpler constructions of what would normally be quite long phrases, e.g. "I want to be able to do this" is now "I want to may do this."'''

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Conjugations are as follows

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Syntax
Word order is generally free, although SVO is probably the most common.

Lexicon
Currently, the lexicon consists entirely of archaic English, butchered French, and Yiddish loanwords. However, other categories may be added later.

Archaic English:

Tharf - modal verb, meaning to need or lack.

Hight - transitive: to call; intransitive: to be called.

Butchered French:

Pamplemouse (pamplemousse) - grapefruit, potentially some sort of mouse; pluralized as pamplemice, and prounounced the way an English speaker with no knowledge of French would pronounce it

Yiddish Loanwords:

Schlep/schlepp - "to move slowly, awkwardly, or tediously"