Re: An ungothroughsome little riddle...

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, jesse stephen bangs wrote:

> > Well, not really a riddle, but something I can't
> > think of the answer to. Concerning the word
> > "ungothroughsome", I'm sure I read that some monk
> > of the 12th or 13th centuries attempted to reenglish
> > the language by creating words of Germanic roots that
> > corresponed with all the new French borrowings.
> > Apparently some of the words stuck, while others
> > languished and faded away. Can anyone confirm or deny
> > this and perhaps name some places where I can find out
> > more?
>
> I think that the word "ungothroughsome" in Romanish tonguings would be
> "intransitive," so I don't understand why you said "an ungothroughsome
> riddle."  I also notice how unsimple it is to talk about speakerishes
> and withmade tonguings without using Romanish words!  Is this
> withtakesome for everyone?
Some of the forththrowinghood seems to be the doneness that most of us are
notkenning of wordstudy, so we look at words like forththrowinghood and
wonder.

Better might be finding words of Anglo-saxon rising, to take the stand of
Latinate words.  This, at least, is easier to read, although one might at
words like "stand" think.  Wait.  How weird.  I wielded a wordstring as if
I were writing in Old English.  All this Anglo-Saxon withbreaks my brain.

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