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Re:Natural Magick (1584) by api on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @12:38PM (#21194129)
A modern version of this should be written in this exact style:

"On the generation of diverse animals and plants through descent with modification..."

"Of the refinement of the silicate ores and the arrangement of circuits thereon..."

"Of the splitting of the atomes to obtaineth warmth, light, and terrible destructive forces whose mere possession shall discourage all enemies from waging war upon thee..."

Re:Natural Magick (1584) by olooney on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @01:58PM (#21195067)
You may enjoy Uncleftish Beholding[1] by Poul Anderson. It's a short essay describing atomic physics explained with pure Anglish words instead of Greek or Latin loan words.

> At first it 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.

> Some of the higher samesteads are splitly. That is, when a neitherbit strikes the kernel of one, as for a showdeal ymirstuff-235, it bursts into lesser kernels and free neitherbits; the latter can then split more ymirstuff-235. When this happens, weight shifts into work. It is not much of the whole, but nevertheless it is awesome.

> For although light oftenest behaves as a wave, it can be looked on as a mote, the lightbit.

[1]: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/complexity/people/studen...

Re:Natural Magick (1584) by voldacar on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @08:11PM (#21198656)
Uncleftish Beholding is amazing!!! It would be so cool if more people tried to write like this, even just as an experiment. It's kind of sad how the english language seems to be almost shameful of its heritage with all of the pseudo-greek/latin scientific words people make up.
Re:Natural Magick (1584) by maliker on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @10:25PM (#21199407)
There's a clever software engineering resume out there in the same style (and also in the style of Leonard da Vinci's resume): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1086527