As an enthusiast for the study of languages, I have created this blog in an endeavor to show what a "pure" English might look like: a modern form of English free of the overflowing quantity of loanwords that have hitherto garnered the language a sound reputation for mongrelism and chaos in its word-stock.
Linguistic purism, which is admittedly driven more by aesthetic considerations than by practicality, has as its goal for the object language to be realized as fully as possible in the context of the natural harmony of its own native elements. I will attempt to demonstrate that, in the case of English, the change necessary to effect such a radical transformation would quite nearly entail the construction of a new language altogether—the price of attaining a certain ideal of beauty.
I acknowledge that I am by no means the first to pursue this goal, and that I am greatly indebted to the efforts of all those who have amassed the outstanding body of linguistic knowledge that exists today, in particular for the field of Germanic philology.
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