Jul. 7th, 2008

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Courtesy of Elizabeth Bear's LJ.

Bless writers who have a strong knowledge of the language, and the history of language.  Like Poul Anderson, who wrote an essay on nuclear power...as if the language had no non-Germanic words.

The result, Uncleftish Beholding, is both familiar, and strangely alien at the same time.  And a good example for writers to analyze.

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