Re: "Speechstuff and Thoughtstuff" by Douglas Hofstader
| From: | Bryan Parry <bajparry@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 10, 2005, 16:37 |
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Stephen, I am glad you quoted Philip as somehow I
managed to delete his response. Cheers guys.
--- Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> wrote:
> 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.
> --
> Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position
> of Stephen Mulraney
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>