On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 08:47:50PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > > > I've been told that was the case in a long-gonne ancestor of modern > > English, possible Old English or the language of Beowulf. > > It's not quite the same thing, but I am suddenly in a mind to provide a > link to a lovely piece by my acquaintance Poul Anderson, the > Danish-American science fiction author 'Uncleftish Beholding', in which > Poul briefly explains atomic theory in an alternate-universe English that > never received any Latin-derived vocabulary. > > Here, my gift to thee and thee, for the Jul holiday (and let us remember > Poul and his wife Karen fondly): > https://msburkeenglish.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/uncleftish-beholding-aka-atomic-theory.pdf > > (Watch out for that ymirstuff-235. It can be troublesome.)
Thank you. A marvellous piece. I read it on first publication in Analog long long ago. -- hendrik > > -- > Cheers, My pid is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 > Rick Moen my parent process. Prepare to vi. > r...@linuxmafia.com > McQ! (4x80) > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
