You can read it here: https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.language...
>At first is 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. There is a heavy kernel with a forward bernstonish lading, and around it one or more light motes with backward ladings. The least uncleft is that of ordinary waterstuff. Its kernel is a lone forwardladen mote called a firstbit. Outside it is a backwardladen mote called a bernstonebit. The firstbit has a heaviness about 1840-fold that of the bernstonebit. Early worldken folk thought bernstonebits swing around the kernel like the earth around the sun, but now we understand they are more like waves or clouds.
>In all other unclefts are found other motes as well, about as heavy as the firstbit but with no lading, known as neitherbits. We know a kind of waterstuff with one neitherbit in the kernel along with the firstbit; another kind has two neitherbits. Both kinds are seldom.
>The next greatest firststuff is sunstuff, which has two firstbits and two bernstonebits. The everyday sort also has two neitherbits in the kernel. If there are more or less, the uncleft will soon break asunder. More about this later.
It takes some effort but it is understandable.
Somebody, build an allowed words and suffixes dictionary file, and I'll go look up the emacs documentation for how to verify text in real time. Let's do this!
- I found one: "rose" (as a flower or color < Latin "rosa", as a kind of motion < Old English "risan")
So, you have to be a little careful about the etymology of meanings as well. Also, you should allow inflections (has, have, having, had) which might not be listed separately in some dictionaries or word lists.
https://github.com/kawabata/stem-english/blob/master/stem-en...
You need to read Japanese to make sense of the comments, but it does seem to work, and for cases it can't handle an exception list shouldn't be too hard to implement, most simply by just including exceptions in the dictionary and falling back to exact matching when you can't match a stem.
However, checking the intended meaning through context would be really hard. So the best I could do is offer warnings for words with both, indicating that the usage may or may not be valid.
It's interesting to contrast this with a side-by-side translation of "normal" English with Frisian, where the similarity is much lower.
I tried using Google Translate to translate this to Portuguese (which I do speak) and I found some mistakes in the translation that might not have come up in normal English.
It's an interesting question to what extent you'd want the translator to understand what Anderson is trying to do and translate accordingly.
As a native Russian speaker, but one who moved to the United States 20 years ago, I do find the Google translation of Russian to be really excellent, as well as vice-versa (but Russian is much more widely spoken, including of course, by a Google Executive, than Frisian.)
Perhaps the sort of divergance we'll end up with if climate change collapse stops global interaction for a millenia.