Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
Not sure about what purity and etymology have to do with one another. I am reminded of a great quotation from the early days of the Internet:
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The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle [sic] their pockets for new vocabulary.
The word would be aliterate. I fyou want to have word that uses only Latin affixes and roots, you could use the more common illiterate. Another mixed one I mentioned earlier in this thread would be the semi-pseudo-mixed unlettered. Or you could use the delightful (and totally Greek, man) analphabetic.


Well, there may have been elements of irony in my question that did not fully transmit via internet.