Attention techies: Write in the style of "Uncleftish Beholding"

[matt_mcl]

What is “Uncleftish Beholding”? It is a tale of the worldken of unclefts, written in true English, English unmingled with words from the Greeks, Romans, or Arabs. Here, for a showdeal, is a bit of the first “Uncleftish Beholding”, by the worldken-talespinner Poul Anderson:

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 nmore, such as aegirstuff and helstuff…

What I put forward is that you take a writing from your field of worldken or strengthwork, and put it across into Anderson’s Anglo-Saxon. Since I’m a speechkenner, here’s a showdeal from a book I had to buy for my Meeting with Tongues learning last year:

1.1 Shapebits

Like togethertakes and speakings, words have an inward framework made up of smaller ones laid out with kinship to each other in their own way. The most weighty weft of word framework is the shapebit, the smallest bit of speech that tells of meaning or working. The word builder, for showdeal, is made up of two shapebits: build (with the meaning of “put together”) and -er (which tells that the whole word works as a name with the meaning ‘one who builds’). Similarly, the word houses is made up of the shapebits house (with the meaning “dwelling”) and -s (with the meaning “more than one”).

Some words are made up of a single shapebit. For a showdeal, the word wheel cannot be split into smaller bits (say, wh and eel or whe and el) that tell of its meaning or work. Such words are said to be mere and are distinguished from togetherknit words, which have two or more shapebits.

5. Ways of Jointing

The lips, tongue, soft roof, and Adam’s apple can be put in manifold shapes to make manifold ringing kinds. These manifold togethershapes are called the ways of joining.

5.1 Mouthly against Nosely Ringings

A firstly split in way of joining is between mouthly and nosely ringings. When the soft roof is lifted, cutting off the windstream through the noseways, mouthly ringings are made. The soft roof, however, can be lowered to let wind go through the noseways, in which stead they are most often calling. (Unless otherwise said so, all noselies given out in this bookpart are calling.) The withsounds at the end of the English words sun, some, and sung are nosely. For many speakers of English, the callrunes of words such as sank and wink are also nosely.

5.2 Stops

Stops are made with a whole and quick shutting of windstream through the callmaking way. In the world’s tongues, stops are found at twoliply, toothly, ridgely, hardroofly, softroofly, throatberrily, and adamsapply jointing steads.

In English, twoliply, ridgely, and softroofly mouthly and nosely stops show up in the following words. Note that [N] does not show up word-startingly in English.

The adamsapply stop is often heard in English in the tellway uh-uh, meaning “no”. The two callrunes in this uttering each come after a quick shuttting of the windstream in the Adam’s apple. In some British folktongues, the adamsapply stop is often heard instead of the [t] in a word like cattle. This adamsapply stop is often spelled with a stopmark (ca’l).

-From Today’s Speech-Upbreaking (Contemporary Linguistic Analysis), third uttering, by O’Grady and Dobrovolsky.

[Polycarp]

I had bethought myself of speaking to Hatespeaking of Sameliking, a mankenning close to your liver, but I wot it more seemly for Big Wranglings than for Worldish Selfspeaking Things, where you wrote your Firstly Upwriting.

[matt_mcl]

Manyseeds, such mankennings are wholly meet in this Firstly Upwriting. I pray you think again and write it here. I don’t think they like writings in Anglo-Saxon in Big Wranglings. And, as you point out, samelover-hatred is a mankenning about which I cannot speak or hear enough. Besides, I wot the other seiðen on the board would love to hear what you have to say (especially my sweet Geist and others of our ilk).

[douglips]

Knave! You have overwrought me with your dare. Much time I have spent on this sillywork, and yet I still suck.

>From SQL Deeddoingworker Worldkenbearing Book (Sybase Worldkengroundwork Salething)

backtake (some speak rollback)

DEEDDOING
Backtakes a manworkermarked workthing back to the last shieldspot within
the workthing or to the beginning of the workthing.
…
UTTERINGS
[ul][li]See “Workthings” in Bookpart 3 for full worldkenning on makeworking workthing husbandry workutterings and on the deeddoings of backtake on held deeddoerthings, triggers, and batches.[/li][li]backtake, without a shieldspot name, undoes a whole workthing. All of the workthing’s workutterings or deeddoings or deeddoerthingdoings are undone.[/li][li]To undo bits of a workthing, makework backtake with a shieldspot name. A shieldspot is a marker set by the manworker within a workthing withworking the workuttering shield workthing. All of the workutterings or deeddoings between the shieldspot and the backtake are undone.[/li]
After a workthing is backtaken to a shieldspot, it can work toward utterness (workdoing any SQL workutterings after that backtake) makeworking bind, or it can be undone altogether makeworking backtake without a shieldspot. There is no end to the reckoning of shieldspots a workthing may bear.
[/ul]

[matt_mcl]

Othershapes

Shapebits do not always have an unshifting shape. The shapebit used to tell of looseness in English, for showdeal, has two shapes: a and an.

The shape a is used before words beginning with a withsound and the shape an before words beginning with a callrune. The manifold shapes of a shapebit are called othershapes.

Another example of othershapely shifting is found in the utterway of the morely shapebit -s in the following words: cats, dogs, fishes.

Whereas the morely is uttered as /s/ in the first deal, it is thingmade as /z/ in the next, and /@z/ in the third. Here again, picking out of the meet othershape hinges on ringkenly facts. We will look at thinner threads of this happening in bookpart 6.

Beginning learners can be puzzled by the shifts in spelling that happen in some shapewise layouts even when there is no likewise shift in utterway. Thus, the last e in the word ride is lost when it comes together with a shapebit beginning with a callrune (rid-ing). It goes without saying that these spelling shifts do not do anything to the self of a shapebit, and should simply be left aside when doing shapekenly upbreaking.

1.2 Showing Word Framework

So as to show the inward framework of words, one has not only to name each of the shapebits that make them up but also to split up these threads by what they give to the meaning and work of the bigger word.

Roots and Onjoinings

Togetherknit words most often are made up of a root and one or more onjoinings. The root shapebit makes up the heart of the wordand carries the biggest chunk of its meaning. Roots most often belong to a wordbookly ilk - name (N), saying (V), onthrown (A), or forestead §. These ilks will be talked about in thinner threads in bookpart 5, bit 1.1. For now it is enough to see that names most often talk about true and make-believe “things” while sayings most often mean doings, onthrowns most often name ways of being, and foresteads show stead-kinships. Mostly, names can be with the (the cow), sayings with will (will go), and onthrowns with mighty (mighty kind).

Unlike roots, onjoinings do not belong to a wordbookly ilk, and are always bound shapebits. A straightforward showing of this split is found in the word teacher, which is made up of the root “teach” and the onjoining “-er”, a bound shapebit that mingles with the root and gives a name with the meaning “one who teaches”. The inward framework of this word can be shown in a drawing.

These drawings, which are often called tree frameworks, show the threads of a word’s inward layout. Where these threads are of no bearing to what is being thought about, it is the folkway to use a much easier way of showing that gives out only where the shapebit edges are: un-kind, like-ly, and so on.

(same wellspring as the earlier onsticking)

[matt_mcl]

From time to time, wights are hurt in sundry steads in their brains. The most oft maker of such brain wounds is a stroke (also called a brain-bloodhose happening). A speech loss brought on by a wound in the brain is called speechlessness. The kenning of speechlessness is by far the mightiest tool in looking into speechfulness in the brain. By looking at and writing down the kinds of speechless-togetherhappenings, brainspeechkenners may most easily name off the biggest upmakers of speechfulness in the brain.

For the most part, the tally and ilk of speechless brawl that a wounded wight will show hangs on how much the brain is wounded and where it is wounded. There are many ilks of speechlessness…

Unstreaming speechlessness (also called going speechlessness) comes from wounds to steads in the brain forward of the middle wrinkle. Bear in mind that a big part of the forward lump deals with going and that the bottom rear stead of the forward lump (Broca’s stead) deals with the bending of speech. Not startlingly, therefore, unstreaming wounded folk show slow, hard speechmaking (hence the word unstreaming). The harshest kind of unstreaming speechlessness is worldly speechlessness. In this type of speechlessness, the wounded wight is wholly dumb. Of the less harsh shapes, Broca’s speechlessness is the most worthy of learning.

The speech of Broca’s speechless ones is mighty stopping. Wounded folk find it mighty hard in rightly making the ringbits needed to say a word. For showdeal, a wounded who wishes to make the saying in 1a) would be likely to make the uttering in 1b).

1a) It’s hard to eat with a spoon.
1b) /… har…it…wIt…pun/

The outtaking dots (…) between the words in 1b) show times of stillness in the making of the uttering. Sayings made at this slow speed are likely to lack wonted saying pitchmaking. This is a wonted likeness of the speech of Broca’s speechless ones and is called wrongsagaing. Note how the wounded one makes the withringing bunches easier in the words “hard” and “spoon” and changes the /T/ to /t/ in the word “with”. The speech mistakes that come out of these kinds of ringbitly mistakes are called ringbitly halfspeakings.