AnWulf
Joined: June 19, 2011
Number of comments posted: 558
Number of votes received: 151
Native English speaker. Conversant in German, Russian, Spanish, and Anglo-Saxon.
Ferþu Hal!
I have a pilot's license (SEL certificate); I'm a certified diver (NAUI); I've skydived and was qualified as a paratrooper in the Army (Airborne!); I was a soldier (MI, Armor, Engineer).
I worked for a corporation, was a law enforcement officer, and a business owner.
Bachelor's in Finance; minor in Economics Masters of Aeronautical Sciences
Browncoat
Now I'm writing my great American novel.
http://lupussolus.typad.com http://lupussolusluna.blogspot.com
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@yarpdigger ... You can ask Ængelfolc since he is German. Bu...
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@Jayles ... Here's one for ya. From a comment on another...
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@Jayles, it all depends on the situation and the times frame...
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on: The opposite of “awaken”?
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Wonder - verb [ intrans. ] 1 desire or be curious to know s...
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I woke up this morning with the answer to "curious" ... wond...
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I'm glad that you caught that ... I thought that I had chang...
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Challenge of the day - curious ... As in, I'm curious to kno...
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It fell out of use but the OE verb for "to fall asleep" was ...
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I'm still having binding (connectivity) problems. At last! I...
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@Jayles ... Very true. I'm reviewing a paper from a Tunsian ...
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My first stake in Anglish is to use fewer Latinates. If ther...
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I thought that we had settled that pre-Norman Latinates are ...
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To say ... Using "bearingacross" just sounding like throwing...
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The "challenge" was for the noun form ... as in the challeng...
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@Jayles ... The story that I'm writing arose from a chat and...
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@Jayles ... I agree. That's is more or less my method. It it...
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It's hard to know which Latin words came into Anglo-Saxon be...
on: Why Don’t We Abolish Irregular Verbs and Nouns?
@Dyske ... "Actually, this shouldn't be so hard to do if the...
on: Comma before “respectively”?
In the example you gave, it is not needed. Only use a comma ...
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I didn't doubt that there was biggen existed, I was thinking...
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If you write out five-minute warning, it should be hyphenate...
on: Is “nevermore” a real word?
Nevermore has been around for several hundred years and is a...
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Forthright's Forsoothery - http://phrontistery.info/archaic....
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Queasy is commonly used in the South. Instead of wan(n)h...
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Interesting article ... but I've never heard of the so-calle...
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@Ængelfolc ... A few of the words that I pointed out weren't...
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Why do some Americanisms irritate people? http://www.bbc.c...
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I just found the answer to my question ... thou was pronounc...
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@Stanmund ... "wainlessly"? You went without a car? "wynd"? ...
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Here's one for ya ... luxury - O.Fr. luxurie, from L. luxuri...
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I found a forum for Anglish that isn't being used. I don't l...
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@Stanmund ... aviation language needs to stay as is because ...
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There is a difference between, "The new hire must be able to...
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@jayles ... just don't say irregardless! lol For me the o...
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@jayles ... I agree about the nuances ... at least in part. ...
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I follow the link from the airforcelinguist to the sample DL...
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I have been trying to use non-French and non-Latin based wor...
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@Jayles ... they're related. Schlacht is battle; Schlachten ...
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@addytag ... When I enlisted, I was able to lock down the la...
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Here are my thoughts about the choices you offered: 1. Fi...
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@addyaty ... I went there many years ago for Russian and I w...
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Ready Reckoners were tables for financial calculations ... I...
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Spanish has "ordenador" and maybe they use that in Spain but...
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One more thing ... I feel like I should have taken notes alo...
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Loan words that I would keep ... A lot actually. 1. Compu...
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What an interesting thread! Ængelfolc you should certainly h...
August 21, 2011, 6:37pm • 0 vote
on: “Anglish”
"Bad writers, and especially scientific, political, and soci...