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Of course, at different times it happened to more or less a degree, and from different languages. It's all arbitrary, but this project chose an arbitrary precision of "pure" Germanic English. It's their choice and doesn't feel ideologically motivated, more so in the spirit of conlang (constructed languages).


> only a quarter to a third of modern English vocabulary can be legitimately described as having purely English

does that make sense? are we dealing with recursive definitions of english here?


> "pure" Germanic English

something there never has been?


No, there was a definite period of history when English was highly Germanic and lacked influence from non-Germanic languages.


Think of it as English as it was when the concept of England originated.




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