unglish
Words that sound like they *could* be english words, but are not... yet. If your ears squint, they might make sense.
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I haven’t forgotten about this channel, btw. I am just preparing the rest of the required infrastructure.
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Oh my goodness, how did I ever miss this one. Ladies and gentlemen, another Unglish!
https://ungglish.loyc.net/
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Native English is actually unglish when transcribed using an American ear.
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Just watched True Detective Season 3. Excellent season.
Couldn’t help but notice that both the names Scoot McNairy and Stephen Dorff have very strong “Bobson Dugnutt” energy.
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Heavily unglish-coded artwork.
https://www.artblocks.io/marketplace/collections/para-bellum-by-matty-mariansky
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Looks like Unglish peaked in 1892
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Unglish&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true
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Was so worried I wouldn’t be given permission to make new words.
Vehndugaited!
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Daily unglish rotation quota
We can do it. I think the latent phonetically English word space might be big enough.
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