03 September 2019

You're legs still work, use them

One of the coolest things I've read in a while, paraphrasing, 'students acing a class, we'll reimburse full payment of the next course if right after it,' so, get a perfect score for the ride and essentially you're only paying for the final class-es, which is great if you're overexerting scholastically, and need to reduce your schedule. This idea is genius and should be instituted on my planet.

Still working on a Vulcan font that applies key combinations, dzh can j, but there are more clusters than slots. Still have to edit the SVG files to fit the target window of each letter, but the found github project will do the rest, hopefully cutting out the white-space, and if not, there's vector and font software somewhere internet.

There's a theoretical language group called proto-indo-european that takes the oldest known languages, and finds the linguistic community consensus of what their hypothetical roots would be. I spent three days OCD dumping it into a Memrise course from a PDF with some fun Spanish/French typos, or the occasional European-ism, perhaps those with linguistics doctorates are from a previous generation and speech. In a few months I'll release the beta. I like it better for not having IPA symbols, and seems way easier than the heritage languages that spawned from hypothetical-it. This is in hope that my proto-mind can find the right grammar to finish my rule, the search might be unending tho.

Going to try a new workout method, if a set takes 20 seconds, then only 20 seconds rest. For HIIT if the high interval is 30 the max rest/stop is 30.

The Korean alphabet is very logical, but the Armenian alphabet is easier to remember. Both seem like better substitutes for Vulcan if the purpose is to represent one sound with one syllable/symbol. Vulcan's circular script doesn't seem daily practical, and the modern type, based on media usage is letter-branching for combinations and sharing with the cursive version is admittedly hieroglyphic in nature, whereas the Armenian alphabet comes closer to approximation and the Korean alphabet comes closer to maturation.

Nonetheless, the Proto "europajom" has so many similarities with English that I'd considered making an eventual post called 'Words in English that are 4,000 years old,' which is interesting to say the least. The anthropological term for these people later was stolen/corrupted by despots, and only because the possible/likely speakers were the first to domesticate the horse, and let's say, drove on their enemies. 4ft person on a Clydesdale as much as 5500 years ago. Eventually number_chan shitlords claimed the name also, so there's no need to call it that.

In helping me assess the turning place it covers some 2/3 of today's languages, and I've already seen a lot of similarities with Spanish and English, and as an American, we've done this place with less than that at times.

Lookin' at you, KWYJIBO.

Besides that I guess the standard updates are due. There's a game called Trivial Pursuit, which I'll understand if you hate, but each card is easily an episode or chapter of any story. Finish the card, finish the A-plot. There are a few countries that I wouldn't go to on principle, and others I won't go to for practical safety, but you have to commend their criminals for embracing capitalism, so you can fear the free states all you want, it's when we start working with your criminals that you should fear. Some countries are shit enough on their own, I just had time to type about conlangs, and might edit my own vlog, I'm not in one of them. As the southwest US homeless crisis won't suffer the arctic winters, it's reached levels of depravity that classical stories solved with fire and brimstone -- fix your problem or be in forfeiture of arable territory. I will throw out liberals with the lunatics and convince myself there wasn't any difference, not exactly a stretch of imagination.

Let me stew on an idea and 6ch in 100 hours. Just enjoyable to use blogger without the google docs and 600+ trackers, once in a while, for a rant.

Proto > Modern, PIE > MIE; it seems to have expected traces of many languages, simplified, a variety of uniform verbs-types, endings, ablaut, does't write in IPA, object infinitives, druids, which doesn't appeal to someone previously writing about Merlin, blah blah etc, to end with a quote and my favorite from the textbook at the moment is:
"7.- Jos ghebhlām nē õike, podn̥s õike. 7.- Who has no head has legs."


/mjbanks