I recalled what I was going to write: A criticism of the Elision idea has been influencing which ideas others can express, despite this not being the case, but character sets already do this; observe all of the homosexual symbols to be found in Unicode, as examples. I want a machine text representation and system where no cabal gets to decide who have dedicated symbols and who don't, which is currently the case. While I do support language expert groups such as the French Academy, as I'm a language prescriptivist, it's unfortunately currently unreasonable to bake in total dominance of such groups at a user level.
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I was wrong about absent; the word is directly from the Latin absēns (absentem, absentis, ...). I so want to list more instances of seeing Latin words and phrases everywhere, and understanding them, but there are so many; so many times I uncritically accepted terms for something and, as I recall them now, I realize their Latin origin. I recently learned one way women in a play would ask nicely for things is to say __amābō__ (I will love (thee)); that's such a complex idea expressed in just one word, and it's beautiful. I'm increasingly able to translate basic thoughts into Latin sentences, and I'm continually trying more; I've not been reading my book daily, and my progress is pathetic currently, but thinking about it constantly has left me without issue in remembering the declension and conjugation tables, which I recall struggling with in my formal schooling. Here are some phrases I've written by myself:
MALUM SINE NŌMINE (evil without name)
MIHI MULTĪ SERVĪ SUNT (To me, many slaves are. / I have many slaves.)
HABEŌ MULTŌS SERVŌS (I have many slaves.)
It's interesting how the dative case can be used like this. MIHI can function similarly to mine in English, in some cases.
I like this, I wonder what the admixture of English's implicit metaphors is, could it be mostly Latin?
There are one thousand dogs but thousands of dogs; interestingly, mīlle is a normal number, but mīlia accepts a genetive plural word, which can be translated as a possessive or with of.
I'm glad you found a tool to relieve some of your pain.
It's returning, although I believe part of it may be my back, and I've made an appointment for this; I believe the pain is different, not being in my hand and wrist, but rather between parts of my forearm and shoulder; I still need to find a suitable speech or sound recognition program I may use.
I can imagine you using dictation to draft prose, your corder to revise, the pen for mathematics, and conventional typing where necessary.
I may buy a second chorder to use for typing prose, which is most of what I type; I've been intending to search for a foot mouse lately, but may use a new style of joystick mouse instead; a typical keyboard is required for programming with typical languages, however, and even mine MMC isn't worth using with a chorder.
You find it best to always hold the ideal in mind so that it won't be lost. I suppose this would naturally lead to perpetual disappointment. I do something similar, but I'm not certain this is the way I want to be. I've been researching some adjacent to this lately and might have a solution of my own soon.
Do tell, when relevant.
I might only ask this due to ignorance of the craft, but have you read this piece by any chance?
No.
Regarding A New English Grammar I've only been reworking (perfect tense) my notes. My plan is to complete this task before sojourning with another grammar. In retrospect it was a mistake to have begun (pluperfect) formal study of English with this book. I feel I would have learned (future preterite) more quickly from a simpler book with more exercises. This is especially true with respect to how grammatical categories interrelate.
There are aspects of English and human language I didn't properly understand, and didn't know I didn't understand, until I began to learn Latin. What little work I've done on language modelling has also helped greatly.
I also collected your articles, and programs for review; although, I haven't decided how I want to go about this yet.
Well, I'll be interested to know how that goes.
I attempted to evaluate your program stepwise, but found I even lacked the basic understanding of parameters, structure, and evaluation order to do this.
APL is evaluated from right-to-left, but the segments separated by diamonds are evaluated left-to-right. APL is like Forth, in that once an unknown function be used, and the shape and other data characteristics be unknown, it becomes largely incomprehensible.
Unsurprisingly, grammar seems to be one of those disciplines best learned whole if crudely and only then refined.
This is how I'm learning Latin, yes, although I know there are times when I'd rather receive more information at once, so as to better compress it.
That being said, I still have some difficult.
I'm not particularly good at this aspect of English, either, but learning Latin has helped; most language terms are from Latin.
Speaking of which I'm around a third through Dijkstra's A Discipline of Programming, which is a very odd sort of math.
I'll keep this book in mind.
Admittedly I've hardly reread any of your website at all. I think when I do I would like to treat it like a math book, attempting to create my own solutions to the problem and then contrasting with that given to see how I can improve. Admittedly this seems distant to me now, but I'll make a schedule to commit to this tomorrow.
I'm flattered.
How are you doing? You seem to have been consistently decreasing your posting everywhere I read you for a while now. I keep thinking something might be wrong despite reading the occasional justification in the logs.
I'm fine. Don't worry about me. I don't believe I'll finish major Elision work in 2021, but I didn't finish major MMC work in 2017 either. With this month, I gave myself the meagre goal of implementing the Serpent cipher well, and the end of the month has already come near with little work done; part of this is due to research, so that what I write will be minimally redundant and pleasant to read. That research has shown that my plan to metaprogram with a Lisp version is largely pointless, however; Lisp increasingly fills an unpleasant void between APL and Ada for me. Lisp is nice for exploration and vague work, but well-understood work tends to be hindered by the lack of control, unlike that which I get with Ada, and the APL just needs to be nice, not practical; I've been intending to implement another language in Lisp, all this year, and still haven't done anything but design and obsess over it so far, because its small core is an unusual algorithm to me, and I was taken in several directions by it, wanting to have nice internals, a nice extension interface, efficiency, and wanting to extend the language in pleasant ways, but this is clearly unreasonable for me to attempt at a first try. Perhaps I'll finish that at some point this year. I know Lisp isn't the best programming language, but I still have something planned I'd like to play with regarding it. The common programming tools are pathetic, and the tools commonly used for Lisp are pathetic.
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https://nitter.snopyta.org/webshitweekly/status/1450563491069247489