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Angish is a fun project that imagines English if it never took on all the Latin/French/Greek/etc. loan words
by triyambakam 1y ago
Angish is a fun project that imagines English if it never took on all the Latin/French/Greek/etc. loan words
- adzm 1y agoUncleftish Beholding [1] is a famous example which explains basic atomic theory. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding From the link: The title phrase uncleftish beholding calques "atomic theory." To illustrate, the text begins: > For most of its being, mankind did not know what things are made of, but could only guess. With the growth of worldken, we began to learn, and today we have a beholding of stuff and work that watching bears out, both in the workstead and in daily life. It goes on to define firststuffs (chemical elements), such as waterstuff (hydrogen), sourstuff (oxygen), and ymirstuff (uranium), as well as bulkbits (molecules), bindings (compounds), and several other terms important to uncleftish worldken (atomic science). Wasserstoff and Sauerstoff are the modern German words for hydrogen and oxygen, and in Dutch the modern equivalents are waterstof and zuurstof. Sunstuff refers to helium, which derives from λιος, the Ancient Greek word for 'sun'. Ymirstuff references Ymir, a giant in Norse mythology similar to Uranus in Greek mythology.
- triyambakam 1y agoThat's a wonderful example, thank you. Especially considering I misspelled Anglish