Arnakak's Diary
Monday, June 23, 2025
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
man, woman, tv
who can solve this cipher?
I think "person" and "camera" are duds - perhaps idiosyncrasies of set patterns of speech denoting patterns of pauses in this case. DJT is programmed to hire conspiracy theoretic tv personalities, and is deliberately designed to favour his own self-image in his ship of fools.
Monday, December 16, 2024
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Borat
Giuliani did not recognize SBC and was none the wiser when he wandered so easily into one of Sacha Baron Cohen pranks by luring him into a compromising position. I'd say that that speaks volumes of how stupid, intellectually lazy, uninformed - uninterested in the real world -, and predictable the MAGA people really are.
Trump is like that. And he got voted in by a cultivated, culpable zealots of MAGA with a mere slim margin of American voters (historical, indeed!). Cult members of any stripe, ilk, and inclination will always march mindlessly into the maw of the likes of the Jonestown mass suicide. But, then again, this is The Sum of All Fears, for real. Or, what Putin is threaten to inflict upon our world.
Friday, November 8, 2024
for those grieving the "win" by Trump
PBS, from America
Reuters, to the world
I once read a piece, written by whom I do not remember, that 'dictatorships' rarely survive the dictator's demise.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
A study into the nature of Inuktitut - the framework
When one looks closely into Inuktut pragmatics, one finds this:
Taamasi Qumaq:
uqaqtuq – inuk suliniraqsuni isumaminik uqatuarami taga uqaqtuq piujumik piunngitumigluuniit
person/ truth+claims+he+when/ (about)+his+mind/, talks+immediately+when/, thus/, speak+he/ good/ good+not+it+a+or/
or,
speaks - when a person claims to tell the truth as far as he/she is aware of and faithful to that gotten knowledge, thus, says something - good or bad - about that given subject (vouchsafed)
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In Inuktut, the semantic and connotational features are "invisible" (ie, "implied") in formalized/ritualized speech, like any and all human languages. But it is systematic and systemic in that it is called an "3rd person, singular, indicative mood" in linguistics. This verbal inflection is then compared to other forms: "let me..."; "am I..?" (I'll explain these verbal modality in later posts)
Monday, November 4, 2024
This is Aimo Paniloo
A study into the nature of Inuktitut - an introduction
The morpho-syntactic rules of the Inuit-Yupik language, unified across the board in this respect, are different from SVO or OSV languages, say, English or French. Inuktut (the Inuit language) has this syntax for the intransitive predicate:
pisuk + tunga pisuktunga
to walk (or verb-ing)+I to walk I am I am walking/I walk
The pattern looks like this: infinitive verb + default (progressive) present tense/aspect + subject of the predicate in the indicative mood.
To this, one may insert non-present adverbial tenses (more on proximity of temporality later).
pisuk + lauq+tunga pisulauqtunga
to walk past I to walk I did I was walking/I walked
or,
pisuk + niaq+tunga pisungniaqtunga
to walk future I to walk I will I will be walking/ I will walk
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In my next installment, I will explain the use of other subject pronominal endings (person and number) that go with the intransitive, indicative mood using different adverbial morphemes (such as manner, frequency, degree, movement and direction, etc.).
Monday, October 28, 2024
Mindful standing and walking(?)
I don't know if what I think I've found would be called, "mindful posture/posturing"; I think that that has to do with Buddhists' notions of meditation.
The thing I found is mindfully seeking the proper alignment of my upper torso, legs, and soles of my feet in the most balanced and relaxed form as I stand still. I also seek the most relaxed, balanced gait as I walk.
This has been kind of a switch for me because I've always slouched sitting and standing, and, now, I've developed an arthritic right hip and a sometimes audible, clicking pop of my right knee cap if I have sat for too long and then I move to stand up.
I think this intention of mind and body in the way I stand and walk not only helps with the way I sit, but also that it helps me with my overall sense of well-being. I seem to be more awake and engaged.
Saturday, May 25, 2024
when was I at my most happy last?
I'm not very personable at the best of times (to people who don't (and do) know me I may seem rude and impatient most times).
One of my saddest regrets is to have lost my greatest love simply because I didn't know (don't know) how to express the depths of my affection and joy when it comes to my home, my safe place (her).
here is a picture when I was at my happiest, when I felt the most safe.
[probably playing along to a Pink Floyd song, wanting to be David Gilmour]Sunday, May 19, 2024
diddy assault video
this is "normal" in many aboriginal women's lives. WHY!!! It makes no sense no matter how one explains it!!!
Video appears to show Sean 'Diddy' Combs assaulting former girlfriend Cassie Ventura (youtube.com)
Sunday, May 12, 2024
I think we need to listen to this
Home and done it's just begun
More than it ever did before
What has he done?
God help my son
Hey, stay a while, I'll stay up
No sugar is enough to bring sweetness to his cup
I know sorrow tastes the same on any tongue
When a gun was in my hands
And I'd waited for so long
How was I to see straight
In the dust and blinding sun
Just a pair of boots on the ground
The children cry
In the rubble of their lives
What has he done?
God help my son
Hey, stay a while, I'll stay up
The volume pumped right up
But not enough to drown it out
I hear "Mama" sounds the same in any tongue
When my faith stands in the way
And the wailing is long done
How am I to know you
With a joystick in my hand
When the call to arms has come
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Gestalt Linguistics vs Structuralist Linguistics
I've always been interested in the umwelt concept ever since I came across it in my readings on semiotics and linguistics. "Umwelt" was first mentioned and defined in the works of Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas Sebeok. It may be summarized in this statement:
[The notions of umwelt are based on the] "biological [and psychological - mine] foundations that lie at the very center of the study of both communication and signification in the human [and non-human] animal" (Sebeok, Thomas A. (1976). "Foreword". Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs. Lisse, Netherlands: Peter de Ridder Press. p. x. ISBN 0-87750-194-7)
Gestalt psychology, itself, was a counter to the, at the times, prevalent British empiricism, which gave birth, ultimately, to structuralism that believed in these three fundamental philosophical pillars:
- "atomism," also known as "elementalism," the view that all knowledge, even complex abstract ideas, is built from simple, elementary constituents
- "sensationalism," the view that the simplest constituents—the atoms of thought—are elementary sense impressions
- "associationism," the view that more complex ideas arise from the association of simpler ideas. (Gestalt psychology - Wikipedia)