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Uncleftish Beholding: A text explaining atomic theory using only words with germanic roots (Anglish) へゆりの住人(´･ω･`) 2025/05/08(Thu)20:59:18 No.14296 +

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For most of its being, mankind did not know what things are made of, but could only guess. With the growth of worldken, we began to learn, and today we have a beholding of stuff and work that watching bears out, both in the workstead and in daily life.

The underlying kinds of stuff are the *firststuffs*, which link together in sundry ways to give rise to the rest. Formerly we knew of ninety-two firststuffs, from waterstuff, the lightest and barest, to ymirstuff, the heaviest. Now we have made more, such as aegirstuff and helstuff.

The firststuffs have their being as motes called *unclefts*. These are mightly small; one seedweight of waterstuff holds a tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most unclefts link together to make what are called *bulkbits*. Thus, the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on. (Some kinds, such as sunstuff, keep alone; others, such as iron, cling together in ices when in the fast standing; and there are yet more yokeways.) When unlike clefts link in a bulkbit, they make

bindings*. Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts

with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand thousand or more unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and chokestuff.

At first is was thought that the uncleft was a hard thing that could be split no further; hence the name. Now we know it is made up of lesser motes. There is a heavy *kernel* with a forward bernstonish lading, and around it one or more light motes with backward ladings. The least uncleft is that of ordinary waterstuff. Its kernel is a lone forwardladen mote called a

firstbit*. Outside it is a backwardladen mote called a
bernstonebit*. The firstbit has a heaviness about 1840-fold that

of the bernstonebit. Early worldken folk thought bernstonebits swing around the kernel like the earth around the sun, but now we understand they are more like waves or clouds.

In all other unclefts are found other motes as well, about as heavy as the firstbit but with no lading, known as *neitherbits*. We know a kind of waterstuff with one neitherbit in the kernel along with the firstbit; another kind has two neitherbits. Both kinds are seldom.

The next greatest firststuff is sunstuff, which has two firstbits and two bernstonebits. The everyday sort also has two neitherbits in the kernel. If there are more or less, the uncleft will soon break asunder. More about this later.

The third firststuff is stonestuff, with three firstbits, three bernstonebits, and its own share of neitherbits. And so it goes, on through such everyday stuffs as coalstuff (six firstbits) or iron (26) to ones more lately found. Ymirstuff (92) was the last until men began to make some higher still.

It is the bernstonebits that link, and so their tale fastsets how a firststuff behaves and what kinds of bulkbits it can help make. The worldken of this behaving, in all its manifold ways, is called *minglingken*. Minglingers have found that as the uncleftish tale of the firststuffs (that is, the tale of firststuffs in their kernels) waxes, after a while they begin to show ownships not unlike those of others that went before them. So, for a showdeal, stonestuff (3), glasswortstuff (11), potashstuff (19), redstuff (37), and bluegraystuff (55) can each link with only one uncleft of waterstuff, while coalstuff (6), flintstuff (14), germanstuff (22), tin (50), and lead (82) can each link with four. This is readily seen when all are set forth in what is called the *roundaround board of the firststuffs*.

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1 へゆりの住人(´･ω･`) 2025/05/10(Sat)04:38:20 No.14299 +

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OP, this is cool!

It's interesting to see how I can understand a lot of the stuff it's talking about, but phrased in ways I don't expect. Reads kind of like a lore exposition in a fantasy fiction series.

Do you have one in Olde/Middle English? It's probably near incomprehensible by modern grammar rules, but I'd like to see it.

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2 へゆりの住人(´･ω･`) 2025/05/10(Sat)05:03:29 No.14301 +

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>Olde/Middle English? It's probably near incomprehensible by modern grammar rules
Not OP, but if you mean that Old English, and not some ye olde-timey style used in fantasy stories to mimic a faux medieval English, then it's probably more than just incomprehensible in terms of grammar. Certainly, by my understanding of English I can't make heads or tails of most of what the hell it is. (;ﾟДﾟ)

For reference here's the Lord's Prayer in Old English:

Fæder ure şu şe eart on heofonum,
si şin nama gehalgod.
to becume şin rice,
gewurşe ğin willa,
on eorğan swa swa on heofonum.
urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg,
and forgyf us ure gyltas,
swa swa we forgyfağ urum gyltendum.
and ne gelæd şu us on costnunge,
ac alys us of yfele soşlice.

Here it is in Middle English:

Oure fadir şat art in heuenes
halwid be şi name;
şi reume or kyngdom come to be.
Be şi wille don
in herşe as it is dounin heuene.
yeue to us today oure eche dayes bred.
And foryeue to us oure dettis şat is oure synnys

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3 へゆりの住人(´･ω･`) 2025/05/10(Sat)12:41:58 No.14302 +

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>>14299
Do note that Anglish is a contemporary attempt at linguistic purism and not something people actually speak or have spoken https://anglish.org/wiki/Anglish

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