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The opposite of Anglese: English but with only Latin-Greeko word(stem)s (www.reddit.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
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You were on your way home when you died

Tu est sur tu via dorm et tu mort.

  • Tu: "Et tu, Brutus?"

  • Est: "id est" / i.e.

  • Dorm: dormitory/domestic

  • Et: "et cetera" / etc.

  • Mort: immortal

It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless.

Id est uno vehicle accident. Null particularly remarkable, sed fatal ultimately.

  • Uno: uno cards

  • Sed: Latin for "but"

You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death.

Tu exit retro uno spouse et duo pedo. Id est uno mort sans pain.

  • Retro: retrospect

  • Pedo: p***phile

  • Sans: sans-serif

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[–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

So basically 11th century Norman with Middle -> Modern English sound changes ahah.

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    [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    You can get part of the way by just finding the morphological rules that govern how words in Latin-derived languages differ from loanwords in English, and applying them to words not borrowed into English. For example, the Italian word for timetable, “orario”, could yield the hypothetical English word “horary”.

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    [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Is that not basically what Interlingua tried to do?

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    [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Reminds me of Salvatore in Name of the Rose.

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