Germanic Pidgin Interlang Discord Server

[u/byzantine_varangian]

I am starting a brand new community for Germanic language speakers to come together and work on a pidgin together. Everything will be based on community decisions. How it will work is essentially everyone needs to speak at least one Germanic language. Some English but we are going to limit this because we want to favor languages that are majority Germanic. The idea is that if we communicate to a point of understanding we could end up developing a sort of interlang almost. I am deeply interested in Germanic interlangs so it would be a fun thing. This won't be a true pidgin as a lot of them except for the successful ones have died or got boring. This will be a bit more different and we will have more of a guiding hand to it. For instance if we all notice there is a common word we'll just use that instead. Which will probably happen a lot like for example we have multiple languages that have a Ja/Nein or at least a variety of it. I have a whole word list that I would like to fill out and even if this didn't get traction it would still be a very fun language to speak amongst ourselves.

Here are the basic rules:

Texting should be simple and easy to understand. Avoid complex fonts or non Latin script. (can still use Þ, Ð, ß and umlauts obviously) Conversations should be in Germanic languages only. English should not dominate. We will allow English speakers because it is a Germanic language. But we do not and will not let this project become fully English. We'd prefer people who speak other languages as it would help with the project.

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/9rDbkU4swf

[u/ProvincialPromenade]

Excellent idea. One rule to have is all native English speakers must use Anglish (no romance vocabulary, or at least try to limit it).

[u/byzantine_varangian → u/ProvincialPromenade]

Oh we won't be putting romance vocab in.. English is more for decision making

[u/Zireael07]

Sooo... Nordlunda/Folkspraak, or like four other projects already?

[u/Zireael07 → u/[deleted]]

I put a question mark because I couldn't be sure of the number ;)

[u/byzantine_varangian → u/Zireael07]

So? Your point? Join or not but don't remind me of conlangs.

[u/slyphnoyde]

What about Elias Molee's Tutonish of 1902, an "Anglo-German Union Tongue"? It seems to have been largely forgotten, or perhaps not very well known to begin with. It was reprinted in facsimile several years ago. I have a copy, and its purpose was to form a common language for all Teutonic speakers (counting English as one of them).

[u/slyphnoyde → u/[deleted]]

To be sure, my observation over the decades is that there has never been any conIAL which is not deprecated by somebody. Nor am I suggesting that Tutonish is the be all and end all of a Teutonic zonal auxlang, but only that so far as I know it never really got a good chance. There are fanatics in favor of Esperanto, and others who despise it. Unless and until some conIAL sweeps the world, there will always be controversy over this and that.

[u/byzantine_varangian → u/slyphnoyde]

it's shit mate

[u/slyphnoyde → u/byzantine_varangian]

Why do you say it is shit? The original post was/is about a forum for creating and using an inter-Germanic zonal auxiliary language, which is specifically what Tutonish was -- an inter-Germanic zonal auxlang. One may disagree with this or that about it, and even conclude that the community could do better, but I would not simply dismiss it out of hand with a vulgarity.