Quoting Hendrik Boom ([email protected]): > 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.) -- Cheers, My pid is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 Rick Moen my parent process. Prepare to vi. [email protected] McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
