{"id":749,"date":"2004-03-18T06:44:11","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slumberland.org\/?p=749"},"modified":"2004-03-18T06:44:11","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T13:44:11","slug":"but-it-doesnt-include-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/2004\/03\/18\/but-it-doesnt-include-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"But&#8230; it doesn&#8217;t include &#8220;blog&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.u.arizona.edu\/~ctb\/wordhord.html\">Old English Computer Glossary<\/a> is a wonderful assortment of computer terms in Old English. I&#8217;m currently typing this post in an <em>eag&eth;yrel<\/em> of my <em>ymbsceawere<\/em>. When I&#8217;m done, I&#8217;ll <em>uphladan<\/em> it to the <em>brytta<\/em>, and it will be on the <em>WoruldWideWebb<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I am aware I am most likely not using the correct form of <em>uphladan<\/em> &#8212; I&#8217;m assuming that&#8217;s an infinitive, and I&#8217;ve never studied Old English so I&#8217;m not just going to guess the correct form of the top of my head. )<\/p>\n<p>I love the pure straightforwardness (hey! That sounds like a good old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon compound word itself!) of some of these terms, which don&#8217;t really sound all that different from modern English. Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>welcome message: <em>gretingword<\/em> (greeting word)<\/li>\n<li>digital: <em>fingerlic<\/em> (fingerly)<\/li>\n<li>dust cover: <em>dusthelm<\/em> (dust helmet?)<\/li>\n<li>hexadecimal: <em>sixtynelic<\/em> (sixteenly)<\/li>\n<li>nerd: <em>oferleornere<\/em>(overlearner?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since I haven&#8217;t actually studied OE yet I&#8217;m just guessing at those literal translations there. Neat, though, aren&#8217;t they? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old English Computer Glossary is a wonderful assortment of computer terms in Old English. I&#8217;m currently typing this post in an eag&eth;yrel of my ymbsceawere. When I&#8217;m done, I&#8217;ll uphladan it to the brytta, and it will be on the WoruldWideWebb! (Yes, I am aware I am most likely not using the correct form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3l1DW-c5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}