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Comment author: komponisto 25 October 2011 02:40:53PM 3 points [-]

This is beautiful:

Nor are stuff and work unakin. Rather, they are groundwise the same, and one can be shifted into the other. The kinship between them is that work is like unto weight manifolded by the fourside of the haste of light.

(You could almost call it "Einstein for Newton's era".)

Comment author: SilasBarta 25 October 2011 04:37:15PM 1 point [-]

Interesting: I knew German used (the equivalent) of "coalstuff" for carbon, but I didn't know they used "chokestuff" ("stickstoff") for nitrogen. Per the German wikipedia, that's due to its use in "choking out" flames.

Comment author: prase 25 October 2011 04:50:48PM 0 points [-]

And "sourstuff" for oxygen. Unfortunately they don't use "sunstuff" for helium though.

Comment author: Tripitaka 25 October 2011 04:52:22PM 1 point [-]

We also use "waterstuff" for hydrogen.

Comment author: prase 25 October 2011 03:56:19PM 0 points [-]

haste of light

"Speed" is Germanic, no need to replace this one.

Comment author: komponisto 25 October 2011 03:58:53PM *  1 point [-]

Perhaps it was meant as a replacement of "velocity".

("Weight" is used for "mass", making me suspect that something such as "heft" might be used for "weight", i.e. "force".)

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