A GLOBAL ZOT DAY

MY PERSONEL DATA | 2/16/08 | DR.EDSON ANDRE' JOHNSON D.D.ULC

[sionnsar]

Are you awake, yet, sion?

Yup. Sort of. Tomorrow starts really early, though... it's always easier attending conferences Someplace Else; here I have to get up really early to beat the traffic and drive or take the bus into Seattle.

[Monkey Face]

Oy. I hate working for a living, though I do enjoy the paychecks and the co-workers!

I have no clue what tomorrow morning will bring. I may opt to stay in bed for a while. Regardless of what the Kritterz say....

[sionnsar]

Is this thread destined to last until the end of the wor-uld, on Dec 21, 2012?

Nope. We'd have reached the End Of The Internet (post #65534 -- we've been there) long before then. Besides the Mods might shut us down if we try that (long threads slow their administration tools significantly). We move on to to another thread at the end of each month now.

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[sionnsar]

Yes, but if you move to the Zeus Colony, you must speak Greek.

Tha beagan Gàidhlig gu math cuideachd. (A little Gaelic is good too.)

[sionnsar]

Okee dokee, then fly in pieces in thy castle, land cautiously, obeying all FAA FCC NRA USA ABC CNN and HBO regulations.

Please Sir or Ma'am,

Thou shalt not swear whilst on the Undead Thread.

(And welcome *\;-)

[sionnsar]

I agree to leave all structure, including leaves, behind

Well, that's better than Stag's entrance, riding a Tyrannosaurus Rex into (?what structure did we have then?).

[sionnsar]

Oy. I hate working for a living, though I do enjoy the paychecks and the co-workers!
I have no clue what tomorrow morning will bring. I may opt to stay in bed for a while.

Sometimes I enjoy working for a living. Right now is one of those times -- had my annual review today, and they Really Like what I'm doing in my new job.

It IS kind of fun -- sit for days on end in technical standards committee meetings, sit through endless talks in conferences, deliver endless talks in conferences, read and collect numerous magazine articles on topics in which I do not believe, write magazine articles and powerpoints related to topics in which I do not believe (but sometimes people pick up on the wee little "thought-provoking" I drop in), and work to remain well-known in my industry.

Not bad for a really shy guy.

But I truly hope your tomorrow is better than the past few days! May the Good Lord bring you sunshine & 100+F, and the good health to (shudder) enjoy it, 'Face.

[sionnsar]

Where'd everyone go?

Last Post?

[Monkey Face]

You are FAR too kind, Sir!
I enjoy sunshine, but when I’m soaking it up, I think that “somewhere” is a dark cloud with JUST the right amount of rain that will find itself hanging out around your city.
As for being shy: A few years as a Customer Service Rep, either on the phone or in person, will give you insights you thought you would never have! LOL!

[sionnsar]

You are FAR too kind, Sir!
I enjoy sunshine, but when I’m soaking it up, I think that “somewhere” is a dark cloud with JUST the right amount of rain that will find itself hanging out around your city.

Milady, blessings upon thee!

[sionnsar]

The moss lawn thanks you too!

[Tax-chick]

(A little Gaelic is good too.)

And a hole in the head, too! I'm sure Gaelic is all very well, in its way, but the Greek Geek is extremely particular ... like a Quebecois!

[sionnsar]

A hole in the head in the right place is a very good thing!

Else how would one eat?

Gaelic (a.k.a. "The Language of the Garden of Eden" -- I kid you not!) is a good thing too. it's the only language I've encountered thus far that comes complete with a world view: love is "at" you, sorrow is "upon" you, you are "under" your cares... "I am in my teacherness" means I am teaching, "There is a teacher in me" means I am a teacher...

[Tax-chick]

love is "at" you, sorrow is "upon" you, you are "under" your cares... "I am in my teacherness" means I am teaching, "There is a teacher in me" means I am a teacher...

Spanish and Japanese have some similar locutions, when put literally into English. Greek has many cognates, including verb endings, with Spanish. It's very interesting!

[sionnsar]

Interesting. Maybe I never got far enough with Spanish to see the locutions. In Gaelic they are *extremely* specific -- "Tha gaol agam ort" ("Hah [gk]ool akahm orsht", or "I love you") is explicitly translated as "There-is love at-me on-you" (word by word, as it turns out).

Add the lack of a present tense (in Scottish Gaelic, though Irish has since acquired it) and the language gets really interesting.

I've heard Arabic is extremely expressive and flowery, far surpassing English. In my experience Gaelic does too.

[Monkey Face]

Whoa! I’m SO sorry!

My daughter called and it took all my attention!

[Monkey Face]

Arabic has about 45,000 words, compared to our 250,000 - 300,000.

When Igor was teaching electronics to the Royal Saudi Air Force, there were no words for the electronics terms we used, so he ended up teaching electronics AND English.

[Tax-chick]

The lack of a present tense would flip me out. Even Japanese has a present tense. Even Pashto has a present tense (and no others worth mentioning)!

[Tax-chick]

Although Arabic and other Semitic languages lack English’s richness of vocabulary, they load a great deal of meaning on to the triliteral root, the 3-consonsant combination that forms the “center” of the meaning of a large group of words.

It’s as if we read the literal meaning of every Greek, Latin, Germanic and Indian root element into every English word. It doesn’t expand the vocabulary in terms of numbers of words, but it loads the meanings and increases the flexibility of the more limited vocabulary.

[webschooner]

Low gravity activity is delightful. Par example, one may more easily set new broad jumping (no jokes, please, this is quite series) records.

And what a simple weight-loss method. Dare I say, we could easily finance more stylish and well-equipped mother ships for cross-galaxy travel if we could but bottle up and sell low-gravity as a weight-loss scheme method. Our current mother ships are so, well ... bland, I would best term it, were I a proper Englishman.