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Atomic Physics in Pure Anglo-Saxon

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by kazinator

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by nephihaha

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I'm amazed at how much I could understand of that. I presume ymirstuff is uranium. Many of the others are more obvious.

by ceuk

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This is so great and such a great example of the sociolinguistic prestige given to certain types of words in English.
It's so funny how all this is doing is naming things in almost exactly the same manner we did name them but using germanic words instead of latin or french words and yet words like "stuff" feel so plain whilst "matter" feels much more erudite.
It's 2026 and we still have this incredibly strong bias which probably originally arose when the roman empire carved europe into civilised and uncivilised parts. A bias which has been reinforced by medieval scholars, the normans and various others until it's part of the bones of english. Latin = clever, Germanic = plain/direct.
Justice for Anglish!

by rramadass

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The wikipedia article linked to in the beginning contains a glossary if you want to understand this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

by aappleby

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by munchler

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by donw

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We need to start teaching everything in Anglo-Saxon:
"Some of the higher samesteads are splitly. That is, when a neitherbit strikes the kernel of one, as for a showdeal ymirstuff-235, it bursts into lesser kernels and free neitherbits; the latter can then split more ymirstuff-235. When this happens, weight shifts into work. It is not much of the whole, but nevertheless it is awesome."

by fractallyte

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And here's the original, in the mid-Dec 1989 issue of Analog Science Fact & Fiction magazine (at the bottom of the page) on the unparalleled Luminist Archives website:
https://readitfree.org/SF/AN_2.htm
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