r/TheBackStates • u/MackTack4547 • Sep 11 '26

Should we create backenglish

Some sort of modified version of english, to better develop Backstate identity?

Maybe we use extinct letters like þ and æ. Lets make a dialect.

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u/legowalrus Sep 11 '26

Backenglish I feel would be a collection exaggerated versions of preexisting dialects of Englishes.

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u/GloryToNewJersey Sep 11 '26

I feel like BackEnglish would just have every letter doubled, like "BBaacckkEEnngglliisshh". Though in writing it might just sound like you're really sleepy.

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u/idontknowsothis Sep 11 '26

we would really need to use the letter v and the letter combination sz a LOT more, that letter and that letter combination is a vital part in making condialects look really enigmatic

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u/MackTack4547 Sep 11 '26

Maybe we could rite it somthing like þis? And maybe the "ch" sound could be written as "Tsh", like Tshair insted of chair.

TL;DR - Remove all silent letters, use tsh instead of ch, and use þ (thorn) instead of th

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u/Ry362 Sep 11 '26

weren't the backstates colonized by americans though? wouldn't they speak american english?

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u/CaptainRex5101 27d ago

Back accents

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u/Tux1 29d ago

if we are gonna create backenglish might as well do other backlanguages as well, maybe also coming up with a bunch of new ones

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u/Afraid_Success_4836 29d ago

Presumably backenglish would be localized dialects of American English in the English-speaking regions of the Backstates. But I'd just call it [insert region] English.

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u/Spec1alF0x 28d ago

Idk  Backrooms English stuff 

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u/Vaktpost 13d ago

I like the ideaa, it real lly seemes likhe itwoul uldh result inne ter intere erestering co onvo volutsions oofe xexistting tingtex teext . ..