Re: "Speechstuff and Thoughtstuff" by Douglas Hofstader

Philip Newton wrote:
> Bryan Parry wrote:
>>Does anyone have the ISBN for these books or know of
>>the details of any other words dealing with
>>"Ander-Saxon" (Germanicised English)
> Well, there's Poul Anderson's "Uncleftish Beholding", which talks
> about the basics of physics and chemistry in Germanicised English --
I guess that what's Bryan was referring to, actually, since he called it
"Ander-Saxon"; a reference which I've seen a few times before (mostly from
John Cowan), but only understood now.

> see http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.language.artificial/msg/69250bac6c7cbaff
> (a newsgroup post) or
> http://www.grijalvo.com/Citas/Peculiar_English.htm (in a package with
> two addresses in Graecised English, where essentially all "content
> words"--nouns, verbs, and adjectives--are of Greek origin).
Got there before me :)

> Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
s.
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