I'm feeling creatively anachronistic today.

[Jeff]

DECADIC
Dials Elegantly Click  - Actually Digital, If Countermodern

Jeff Anonymous, referring to pulse telephone dialing, a digital system, and the rotary dial phones that implement it.  I keep a Western Electric 500-type rotary phone next to my iBook to remind me that while newer isn't always better, elegance is timeless.  Or more practically, it doesn't fall off the desk.

LINGUA LATINA
Latin Is Not Gone -- Used "AM" Lately? Also There's Information Not Anglicizable.

Jeff Anonymous, expanding the Latin language's name for itself -- and noting its continued relevance, even in daily conversation where in abbreviated form "ante meridiem" its head rears, in addition to the fact that there are many literary works that do not translate terribly well into English -- the meter of Virgil, for example, cannot be preserved well in a translation out of Latin.

[Tony]

 Jeff wrote:

> Jeff Anonymous, expanding the Latin language's name for
> itself -- and noting its continued relevance, even in daily
> conversation where in abbreviated form "ante meridiem" its
> head rears,

Ouch, what a construction! … "its head rears" …, you make it sound like a lumbering dinosaur.
Most of the words you used in your post will have Latin roots, so in reality you're still using it.
Most of the Romance languages developed from Latin, the further from Rome, the more the local dialect deviated from standard usage. English is less latin-based than say French or Spanish, because of the influx of Germanic hordes before the Norman invasion.

[Jeff]

I wasn't even thinking about how many of the words I was using were of Latin descent, but in educated speech that's not to uncommon.

But I was thinking about "its head rears" -- the construction of that sentence (Subject-Direct Object-Verb with a fair number of prepositional phrases thrown about) is not at all unlike Latin construction.

Let's throw the FRANC in too

French Roundel; Alas, Nevermore Currency.

Jeff Anonymous, on the former French currency, now replaced with the EU Euro.


>>> On 31 October 2004 12:24:30 UTC, Tony wrote:

 Jeff wrote:

> Jeff Anonymous, expanding the Latin language's name for
> itself -- and noting its continued relevance, even in daily
> conversation where in abbreviated form "ante meridiem" its
> head rears,

Ouch, what a construction! … "its head rears" …, you make it sound like a lumbering dinosaur.
Most of the words you used in your post will have Latin roots, so in reality you're still using it.
Most of the Romance languages developed from Latin, the further from Rome, the more the local dialect deviated from standard usage. English is less latin-based than say French or Spanish, because of the influx of Germanic hordes before the Norman invasion.

[Tony]

Jeff wrote:

>  is not at all unlike Latin construction.

LATIN
Language A Touch Intricate Nowadays.

English is becoming so sloppy that grammar is disintegrating, even though it was never as complex as Latin. Learning Latin must be really difficult now.

[Angela]

> Let's throw the FRANC in too

> French Roundel; Alas, Nevermore Currency.

> Jeff Anonymous, on the former French currency, now replaced with the EU Euro.


There are still SWISS FRANCS!

Splendid With Intense Shades, Small Fortune Redeemable As Note (Correctly Singular)

This one could do with improvement... but the things that struck me about Swiss Francs were the bright colours and the fact that they're available in such high denominations. I've only seen up to a 200 Franc note (which is already better than I've seen in any other currency) but apparently there are 1000 Franc notes which are the most valuable mass circulated notes in the world.

[Tony]

Angela wrote:

> There are still SWISS FRANCS!

> Splendid With Intense Shades, Small Fortune Redeemable As Note (Correctly Singular)

> This one could do with improvement... but the things that struck me about
> Swiss Francs were the bright colours and the fact that they're available in such high denominations.
> I've only seen up to a 200 Franc note (which is already better than I've seen in any other currency)
> but apparently there are 1000 Franc notes which are the most valuable mass circulated notes in the world.

SWISS FRANCS (2)
Serious Wealth Indeed. Switzerland's Savers Feel Rich And Never Countenance Spending

[Tony]

LIRA
Loot Italians Rapidly Accumulated
The defunct Italian currency was worth very little and one cashed large notes to buy the cheapest items and received a large quantity of near-worthless coinage.

[Tony]

PUNT
Purchasers Used Need These.

[Tony]

Tony wrote:
> PUNT
> Purchasers Used Need These.

Actually, I prefer my second thoughts
PUNT (2)
Paddies Used Need These

[Jeff]

POUND
Phasing Out?  UK's Not Deciding.
(Though that is not technically an anachronism, Blair would like it to be)



>>> On 01 November 2004 22:51:30 UTC, Tony wrote:

Tony wrote:
> PUNT
> Purchasers Used Need These.

Actually, I prefer my second thoughts
PUNT (2)
Paddies Used Need These

[Jeff]

And another.

FOUNTAIN PEN
Flows Out...Usually Nice, Though Also It Needs Protectors -- Easily Nasty.

Fountain pens are nice -- I find that I can write better with one than with a ballpoint, though that's not saying much -- but if you put one in your shirt pocket, be sure that you are wearing a pocket protector if you like the shirt much or you don't want to be embarassed.

[Tony]

Jeff wrote:

> FOUNTAIN PEN

Which leads us logically to:-

NIB
Numerous Ink Blotches

INKWELL
I'll Now Keep Writing, Employing Lampblack Liquid

[Angela]

I thought of this thread when I got the compiler warning:

 warning C4229: anachronism used : modifiers on data are ignored

so here's my MODIFIERS:

Mould Our Data Into Form Incorporating Esoteric Reckoning Symbols