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Re: "Speechstuff and Thoughtstuff" by Douglas Hofstader

From:Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>
Date:Thursday, February 10, 2005, 14:11
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@...>
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