Interesting language stuff

[Jonathon]

That is interesting, though I was hoping they'd go into more detail about specific changes. I wonder if anyone's studied it in depth.

[rivka]

Could be a good PhD thesis for someone.

[Jonathon]

Definitely.

[rivka]

I did a ProQuest search and was unable to find anything. I found a few that were about using Word (sometimes with another option as a comparison) as a method to teach various groups of students writing skills and the like.

So either it hasn't been done, or my ProQuest search skills are lacking. Probably both.

[Jonathon]

I actually wrote a chapter last year on editors and dictionaries for an edited volume that's coming out next year, and I briefly discussed spellcheckers. I didn't do a super-deep dive into the literature, but I found surprisingly little on that specific topic, so my guess is that nobody's really done any research in that area.

[rivka]

Fascinating.

[Tante Shvester]

Here's an article about Atomic Theory written in Anglish, which is English purged of all words of non-Germanic origin.  It reads like a fantasy novel.

[Brinestone]

That is almost impossible to make sense of.

[rivka]

Indeed.

[Porter]

I could only make sense of it by thinking hard about what the Latin roots are for words like "atom", "hydrogen", "proton", "helium", "element", etc..

Most of those words, as commonly used, have nothing to do with their root.

I normally think of word "helium" is just the word for element #2.  I could use it or hear it 10,000 without thinking about its connection to "helios".