Re: On Translating "Uncleftish Beholding"

On Mar 1, 4:45 am, Wolfgang Schwanke <s...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Quadibloc <jsav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote innews:cb4e2585-5b4d-494d-bf30-3d3f86f009ff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

modified form of English, in which all words containing Latin or Greek
roots are replaced with words based on Germanic roots but in a form
and spelling intelligible to English speakers.

Are you sure that "waterstuff" or "bernstonish" are intelligible to
English speakers who don't have a knowledge of Dutch or German (or
Yiddish)?

You're quite right; they wouldn't be. (And "stuff" is hardly a
rendition of -gen; the proposed form is nothing but an Englishing of
the German word.)
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