Explanations

Sorry I forgot to post yesterday; I went on a computer fast. Hopefully you'll see a mid-week post.

Matlang, Day 7

Hey y'all, it's back to Matlang.

In our continuing saga, I will start to outline my vision of Matlang grammar.

In English, the essence of the clause is in the verb. Look at the sentence now the whole world had one language and a common speech. The essence is in the verb, have. Everything else describes in detail that action of ownership. Who had, what was had? Everything else is an argument to the verb. I think, with my limited linguistic knowledge, that most languages are that way.

In Matlang, our goal was to create a language based off of principles of Material Logic. The fundamental concept of Material Logic is, in fact, concepts. There is also the principle of substance and accident: Substances are the essential, unchangeable, defining characteristics of a being, while accidents are things applying to it that are unessential and changeable. In other words, heads and modifiers.

But the substances are all nouns.

Therefore, we must in Matlang have clauses be based off of the noun. In the aforementioned sentence, it is the world which is the basis of the sentence.

Let's form a structure of the same sentence in Verb-based and Matlang terms:

Verb-Based
have{world
     -the
     -whole
     |{and|language
           -one
          |speech
           -a
           -common
-past
Matlang
world
-the
-whole
-have{{and|language
           -one
           -past
          |speech
           -a
           -common
           -past
-past


I'd like it to have a somewhat head-initial syntax, like world whole have language one speech common.

And for our first five words, they will be nouns:

1. Sōcrāt-, Socrates (duh)
2. pater-, father, ancestor
3. mater-, mother, origin
4. phrāter-, brother, friend (informal)
5. adelph-, brother, monk (formal)

Happy MLKJ Day

Sorry I forgot to post yesterday, so I'll just say Happy MLKJ Day.

In the spirit, should you donate to a civil rights group? Of course not, and this is why:

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

-- MLK's dream speech

Those were the injustices:

1. Racist policemen
2. Racist hotels
3. Poor black people
4. Racist water fountains and bathrooms
5. Racist polls

Hmm, how many of those really still exist in America? Only number 3, and that isn't a problem caused by racism. Trust me, when the civil rights people say "his work isn't finished" they lie so they can keep their jobs.

Why not just donate to an antipoverty group instead? After all, we are free at last to do so.

Thank God Almighty!

Positum Intitulō

This post is of multiple subjects, which is why it has no title.

Subject 1
I made it my goal to post once a week. I will do so every Sunday.

Subject 2
Last post I said that I would tell you about the papers. They included:

• A photocopy of a family record, showing the ancestors of my grandfather in two generations, including the names and BMD dates of Cora's parents. For those that don't know, BMD stands for birth-marriage-death, and Cora's parents were until now a mystery.
• A discharge record of my great-grandfather Frank Brown
• A letter to ditto from his cousin
• A handwritten poem about Father Christmas by my great-great grandfather
• A ditto about a boy drowning by ditto.

This leads to more research I will do over the summer, when I get an ancestry.com account:

• Search for immigration papers of Cora's parents (they were Norwegian), and after that birth records.
• Find out about my great-grandfather's regiment
• Do more research on his ancestry

Who knows what I'll find -- that's the beauty of genealogy.

Subject 3

I said that I was doing Perl; now I'm learning C++. So far I've managed to do, hmm, 0 successful programs.

I'm working on it.

Efharistó!

Geneology

I just found a case full of old documents; my great-great grandfather was a poet! More will come.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! There are two things to address on this first day of Anno Domini two-thousand and ten and one.

First, my new years resolution: to post more posts than last year. I did 27 last year, and that's every 13 days on average. I just have to make once a week, and that will easily break the record.

Second, I'm gonna tell you about the Emnonian calendar system.

There are twelve months, each with thirty days:

1. Spring
2. Latespring
3. Latterspring
4. Farfall
5. Formerfall
6. Earlifall
7. Fall
8. Autumn
9. Latefall
10. Latterfall
11. Winter
12. Earlispring

Mythday is put in-between Spring and Latespring, Latterspring and Farfall, Formerfall and Earlifall, Fall and Autumn, Latefall and Latterfall, and Winter and Earlispring.

Yearday is put before Spring every four years.

Efharisto!