Not standard English
Ingedish is not a proposal to replace English, and not currently a fully specified constructed language.
language game / works & experiments
Ingedish
That’s not English.
Correct. It’s Ingedish.
A language game built from English words and morphemes, where suffixes can be attached more freely than standard English normally allows.
Understandability > grammaticality.
If you understood it, it worked.
What is Ingedish?
Ingedish is a language game based on English words and morphemes. It stretches, bends, stacks, and occasionally breaks familiar English morphology while trying to keep meaning recoverable.
Ingedish does not need to be grammatically valid English. It only needs to be understandable enough that a reader can look at the pieces, the order, the syntax, and the context and think:
“I think I know what that means.”
Meaning first
The central test is simple: if the reader understood it, it worked.
Playable ambiguity
Strange is allowed. Ambiguity is playable. Morphology can be flexible as long as something remains decodable.
ING
Gives something an -ing / present-participle-like quality.
why → whying
with → withing
everything → everythingingED
Gives something an -ed / past / completed / resulting-state-like quality.
between → betweened
nothing → nothinged
loving → lovingedISH
Gives something an approximate / weakened / sort-of quality.
lovinged → lovingedish
kind of lovinged
lovinged-likeExample chain
One of the most characteristic ideas in Ingedish is that affixes can behave like operators, acting on the meaning built so far.
Base word
love
→
+ING
loving
→
+ED
lovinged
→
+ISH
lovingedish
ISH(ED(ING(love)))
Not as a rigid formal system, but as a useful way to think about meaning stacking.
Words are suffixable
why → whying
because → becausing
if → ifing
what → whating
with → withing
everything → everythingingParts of speech are suggestions
I am whying you.
My whying never stops.
That’s a very whying cat.Representative expressions
Some things are better left unwhyinged.
I everythinging you.Spelling is flexible
hope + ing
→ hoping
→ hopeing
→ hope-ing“Morphology builds meaning. Syntax gives it a job.”
“Some things are better left unwhyinged.”
“Stop grammarizing. Start suffixing.”
Ingedish v0.1 Declaration
- Words are suffixable.
- Parts of speech are suggestions.
- Affixes behave like operators.
- Affixes mean in the order they happen.
- Spelling is flexible.
- Hyphens are optional.
- Ambiguity is playable.
- If you understood it, it worked.
Ingedish remains experimental, especially around tense and aspect. Some things are better left unwhyinged.
Posters
Two visual takes on Ingedish: one clean and explanatory, one playful and character-driven.
