Posted by Kazper at 2:57pm Dec 20 '07Yes. I think that it is a mistake to always think that it is best to completely understand, to master, a thing before proceeding to a following thing. Understanding of following things can facilitate understanding of previous things.
'As simple as possible. If a certain amount of complexity is necessary for something to work (and you want/need it to work) then it cannot be made less complex... or else it wont work. (I think this should be a rule for the general. I do not desire to inhibit those who desire to add complexity... perhaps, just for complexity's sake. It may bring them joy to make something needlessly difficult. Why should I interfere with their joy? In fact, if they have the "right" (what's most pleasing to me) attitude, then I share their joy.
Fiction, by definition, is not reality. So- don't concern yourself with reality!
Do I really desire to spend concentrated time trying to create truths of facets of a fictional reality instead of spending that concentrated time trying to discover truths of facets of factual reality...? I don't think so... To escape, for a time into fiction, sure. To spend a significant amount of time there, no. Fact may not only be stranger than fiction but more fulfilling as well.
In my opinion you do not have to give to another. It is enough that you do not take without permission from another.
Communal type living for solitary people may not be the most comfortable but it's certainly cheaper than living alone. The amount of work one has to do can be less too. But who says communal living has to be super social? There's no reason solitary people, who might not even like eachother (but are respectful to each other) can't come together for their mutual benefit. Namely, to share resources. (Anyone here in 4th kingdom interested in joining an intentional community? I'm payin' for 58 acres up near Kapuskasing, Ontario. I got 100% timber and mineral rights. It won't be paid off until 2010/Aug but I can bye the property anytime if I get a loan (nothing can be done to the property until it's paid off).)
... A group of individuals who come together when desired to facilitated the attainment of resources.
Shorter words help with brevity, not to mention facilitating the use of finger spelling in a sign language.
An international language should have hearing and seeing impaired forms. It would be so cool if people who could see and hear also knew how to visually and tactilly sign, as well as read and write in a braille type script.
Perhaps one type of blind communication system for use at a distance could be... focused... pressure pulses... One could talk or write into a device that would then translate it into a signal. The reciever person would feel the pulses and interpret them. Of course they could also just use the reciever device if it was capable to creating braille like symbols.
The difference between two contrasts maybe so small/subtle that there's no benefit in particularizing them.
I would so like an international language (that's internationally accepted) that is most neat (whatever that exactly means. For me I don't think I'm referring just to regularity.) and that I understand very well.
Imagine you are at a gathering and you and your partner are sitting at a dinner table and you are communicating with each other underneath the table by tactile signing on each others knees or something... How fucking cool would that be? Tres cool.
Imagine having a sign language that utilizes a pencil, pen or [stick like object]. You could be communicating with someone and all others (who don't know the language or recognize it as such) would just see someone fiddling with a [pencil]...
If x1 eat[in present] then x1 is automatically in either the beginning, after beginning, middle, before ending or ending (or any other... sublty within that you choose to distinguish) of the [event]: x1 eat (at least how I think the present tense is used in English). I don't see how this can't be true. So, though tense and aspect are different I don't think you can have one without the other. You may choose to not express one or both, but they're there... (...I found the book "Tense, Reference, and World Making" by James [Alardain] McGilvroy online and read a page and I think I'm on to something... something that's been around for a little while)
I think the simple past "I ate" is: I in time of past and behind time of ending of . If you just finished eating (I think for me it would have to be within a minute) you could say: I in time of present and behind time of ending of .
Every action, even if it happens once, such as x1 shouts (once), has a duration since it has a beginning and an ending and so an interim period, no matter how short.
I dislike homonyms but I can see how they can happen. Possessers of a language can at times just forget that a particular word is already in use when creating a new word and before they remember the homonym can be in wide use and difficult to get rid of.
x1 is going to smell bad.
odour of x1 [in time of future and in time of middle of]>l (A bit hard to see still. It helps to picture "before beginning..." and "after ending..." ones, especially ones where one possesses an action. Btw, "before" and "after" are words representing the... place structure phrases: "front time of" and "behind time of".)
"Brevity is the soul of language."
Brevity is the saviour of those who use a language. It allows them to communicate without their mouths drying up or their hands falling off. (I keep seeing that I need to ellipse things, compress things,... abandon things,... learn to explain things.)
Ahhh! Communal living is just so mcuh cheaper. I'm set to move. My rent is gonna be $660, my land payments are $375 (down from $500, so that I'd be able to more easily afford an apartment), my buspass is $73, my internet's gonna be $20, my cell's on 30 cents a minute and my food should be at the most $100. So, I'm gonna have to pay $ 1228 a month. Up $280 from what I have been payin'. :( If I stayed put, now that my land payments have been reduced by $125 I'd only have to pay $823 a month. If I stay with this placement agency I could also ensure myself only 4 days of work a week at the most. :) You see, communal living is so much cheaper. There's so much more ease. If I stay though I'd lose my $660...
What I want is to work less and think more, and get better at thinking. Linguistics, I'm now thinking, may be the one main thing I should focus on. Scripts especially seem to excite me.
...I do have to go to different places and meet different people on a regular bases with this job though. This is not really pleasing. Some advantages of it though are that I'm forced to get over some social phobias and learn how to get around the city (at least the west end, as they staff out the west end) better.
~Shawn Savoie~
~Ottawa, Ontario, Canada~
'As simple as possible. If a certain amount of complexity is necessary for something to work (and you want/need it to work) then it cannot be made less complex... or else it wont work. (I think this should be a rule for the general. I do not desire to inhibit those who desire to add complexity... perhaps, just for complexity's sake. It may bring them joy to make something needlessly difficult. Why should I interfere with their joy? In fact, if they have the "right" (what's most pleasing to me) attitude, then I share their joy.
Fiction, by definition, is not reality. So- don't concern yourself with reality!
Do I really desire to spend concentrated time trying to create truths of facets of a fictional reality instead of spending that concentrated time trying to discover truths of facets of factual reality...? I don't think so... To escape, for a time into fiction, sure. To spend a significant amount of time there, no. Fact may not only be stranger than fiction but more fulfilling as well.
In my opinion you do not have to give to another. It is enough that you do not take without permission from another.
Communal type living for solitary people may not be the most comfortable but it's certainly cheaper than living alone. The amount of work one has to do can be less too. But who says communal living has to be super social? There's no reason solitary people, who might not even like eachother (but are respectful to each other) can't come together for their mutual benefit. Namely, to share resources. (Anyone here in 4th kingdom interested in joining an intentional community? I'm payin' for 58 acres up near Kapuskasing, Ontario. I got 100% timber and mineral rights. It won't be paid off until 2010/Aug but I can bye the property anytime if I get a loan (nothing can be done to the property until it's paid off).)
... A group of individuals who come together when desired to facilitated the attainment of resources.
Shorter words help with brevity, not to mention facilitating the use of finger spelling in a sign language.
An international language should have hearing and seeing impaired forms. It would be so cool if people who could see and hear also knew how to visually and tactilly sign, as well as read and write in a braille type script.
Perhaps one type of blind communication system for use at a distance could be... focused... pressure pulses... One could talk or write into a device that would then translate it into a signal. The reciever person would feel the pulses and interpret them. Of course they could also just use the reciever device if it was capable to creating braille like symbols.
The difference between two contrasts maybe so small/subtle that there's no benefit in particularizing them.
I would so like an international language (that's internationally accepted) that is most neat (whatever that exactly means. For me I don't think I'm referring just to regularity.) and that I understand very well.
Imagine you are at a gathering and you and your partner are sitting at a dinner table and you are communicating with each other underneath the table by tactile signing on each others knees or something... How fucking cool would that be? Tres cool.
Imagine having a sign language that utilizes a pencil, pen or [stick like object]. You could be communicating with someone and all others (who don't know the language or recognize it as such) would just see someone fiddling with a [pencil]...
If x1 eat[in present] then x1 is automatically in either the beginning, after beginning, middle, before ending or ending (or any other... sublty within that you choose to distinguish) of the [event]: x1 eat (at least how I think the present tense is used in English). I don't see how this can't be true. So, though tense and aspect are different I don't think you can have one without the other. You may choose to not express one or both, but they're there... (...I found the book "Tense, Reference, and World Making" by James [Alardain] McGilvroy online and read a page and I think I'm on to something... something that's been around for a little while)
I think the simple past "I ate" is: I in time of past and behind time of ending of . If you just finished eating (I think for me it would have to be within a minute) you could say: I in time of present and behind time of ending of .
Every action, even if it happens once, such as x1 shouts (once), has a duration since it has a beginning and an ending and so an interim period, no matter how short.
I dislike homonyms but I can see how they can happen. Possessers of a language can at times just forget that a particular word is already in use when creating a new word and before they remember the homonym can be in wide use and difficult to get rid of.
x1 is going to smell bad.
odour of x1 [in time of future and in time of middle of]
"Brevity is the soul of language."
Brevity is the saviour of those who use a language. It allows them to communicate without their mouths drying up or their hands falling off. (I keep seeing that I need to ellipse things, compress things,... abandon things,... learn to explain things.)
Ahhh! Communal living is just so mcuh cheaper. I'm set to move. My rent is gonna be $660, my land payments are $375 (down from $500, so that I'd be able to more easily afford an apartment), my buspass is $73, my internet's gonna be $20, my cell's on 30 cents a minute and my food should be at the most $100. So, I'm gonna have to pay $ 1228 a month. Up $280 from what I have been payin'. :( If I stayed put, now that my land payments have been reduced by $125 I'd only have to pay $823 a month. If I stay with this placement agency I could also ensure myself only 4 days of work a week at the most. :) You see, communal living is so much cheaper. There's so much more ease. If I stay though I'd lose my $660...
What I want is to work less and think more, and get better at thinking. Linguistics, I'm now thinking, may be the one main thing I should focus on. Scripts especially seem to excite me.
...I do have to go to different places and meet different people on a regular bases with this job though. This is not really pleasing. Some advantages of it though are that I'm forced to get over some social phobias and learn how to get around the city (at least the west end, as they staff out the west end) better.
~Shawn Savoie~
~Ottawa, Ontario, Canada~
Ruminations. - Kazper