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Comment author: Logos01 25 October 2011 05:29:01PM 5 points [-]

Write like you talk. When possible, use small, old, Germanic words.

Oh dear. Those two goals are ... contradictory for me. I've had the fact that "people don't talk like that, {Logos01}" stated to me on more occassions than I care to recall.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 October 2011 06:57:53PM 4 points [-]

If it were up to me, nuclear fusion and nuclear fission would be called “nuclear merging” and “nuclear splitting”. Or even “kernel merging” and “kernel splitting”?

Comment author: wnoise 25 October 2011 08:27:27PM *  19 points [-]

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.language.artificial/msg/69250bac6c7cbaff?pli=1

The tailbit of Poul Anderson's "Uncleftish Beholding":

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.

With enough strength, lightweight unclefts can be made to togethermelt. In the sun, through a row of strikings and lightrottings, four unclefts of waterstuff in this wise become one of sunstuff. Again some weight is lost as work, and again this is greatly big when set beside the work gotten from a minglingish doing such as fire.

Today we wield both kind of uncleftish doings in weapons, and kernelish splitting gives us heat and bernstoneness. We hope to do likewise with togethermelting, which would yield an unhemmed wellspring of work for mankindish goodgain.

Soothly we live in mighty years!

Comment author: Sniffnoy 25 October 2011 11:24:09PM 5 points [-]

In case people want a lot more of this: http://anglish.wikia.com/wiki/Headside

Comment author: [deleted] 27 October 2011 08:06:48PM *  2 points [-]

This is just begging to be a text in an alternative history novel.

Comment author: soreff 25 October 2011 10:56:19PM 2 points [-]

Cute. When I first glanced at it, my 0-th reaction was "what the....???" - and then I saw the "235" Amazing how fast everything fell into place after that...

Comment author: wedrifid 25 October 2011 07:16:16PM 0 points [-]

Kernel? That's a bit complicated for me. Can we call it 'core' instead?

Comment author: fubarobfusco 26 October 2011 12:00:49AM 1 point [-]

A more runewise crosscarrying would be "the nut of the uncleft".

Comment author: [deleted] 25 October 2011 07:32:20PM 1 point [-]

Doesn't that come from Latin cor ‘heart’? :-) (Just guessing.)

(Also, core can also refer to the nucleus plus the electrons other than those in the outermost shell, so it'd be ambiguous.)

Comment author: dlthomas 25 October 2011 07:46:37PM 1 point [-]

"middle bit"?

Comment author: Sniffnoy 26 October 2011 12:12:54AM 0 points [-]

Doesn't that come from Latin cor ‘heart’?

Nope: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=kernel

Comment author: komponisto 26 October 2011 12:20:24AM 0 points [-]

Wrong word. Actually, yes.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 26 October 2011 12:21:24AM 0 points [-]

Oops. I failed to read that properly.

Comment author: lukeprog 25 October 2011 06:10:53PM -1 points [-]

Maybe what i mean is "Write in plain talk." I'll change it.

Comment author: Logos01 25 October 2011 06:19:39PM -1 points [-]

It's a challenge.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 October 2011 09:16:38PM *  0 points [-]

Is it a challenge you want to beat?

EDIT: Sorry, stupid thing to ask.

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