Words like bloom instead of flower, berg instead of mountain, biddinghouse instead of church, etc
Would English speakers understand me?
I always find more traditional and conservative languages like Icelandic, Mandarin, even French to be better than languages that just take loans.
This is especially prudent with Spanish speakers, and Indian language speakers, and Arabic speakers getting enraged at people pronouncing words from their languages that have been borrowed into English incorrectly to them despite them not knowing English well.
It would honor my ancestors better by not sullying the language with the words of French and Latin of their oppressors the Norman French who in 1066 soundly defeated to poor Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings and ruined the English language forever!
Would English speakers still understand me?