archives of the CONLANG mailing list ------------------------------------ >From robin@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU Sun Dec 5 02:03:53 1993 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1993 12:03:46 +1100 From: Robin F Gaskell Message-Id: <199312050103.AA16786@extra.ucc.su.OZ.AU> To: conlang@diku.dk Subject: RE Duttons Speedword From: robin@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Robin Gaskell) 29 Nov 93 To: conlang@diku.dk (Conlang Mail List) Subject: RE Duttons Speedword Hi Gang! Sorry about slackness: life has been very stressful for me over the past two months, but things have been happenning in Glosa. This short blip is to say that, only a week ago, my brother, Anthony, and I agreed to work on an update of Duttons Speedword ... particularly as it could be used by architects and other professionals to make hurried notes, on site. Anthony and I have disagreements on the nature of Language Reform, with him speaking Esperanto fluently, while I still stumble over my Glosa. However, on the matter of an international script, we agree that all languages, and that includes Esperanto and Glosa, can be recorded using Duttons Speedword. Anthony has a copy of the original book, and I am hopeful of getting another through the S/H bookshop network. His letter to Dutton's daughter did not yield a reply, so we assume that she, too, has passed on. It will be quite fun and a worthwhile project, to bring Speedword up to date, and to present it to modern technologists as an efficient means of communicating across the `Foreign Language Barrier.' As far as we are concerned, it is no longer covered by copyright (if it ever was), and work is needed on it to refine it. Also, it will keep us off each other's backs with endless discussions on the relative merits of Esperanto and Glosa; instead, we will be working on something we can both be happy with. So, it was quite a surprise when this medium came up, on screen, as I was thumbing through my backlog of Conlang downloads. I look forward to seeing what Ronald Hale-Evans is doing in his Duttons Speedword Project. Technically, I can not see DS as an IAL, because it is not designed for speech. However, it provides half the answer to global communication, and so, it gives us an opportunity to experiment with a partial form of the IAL hypothesis - in a way that is politically neutral. Also, it fails to beg the question of adoption of a spoken tongue. It could be the fore- runner of the IAL proper, and will not conflict with it. Perhaps, in a sneaky way, DS will give the human race a taste of global communication, so softening up the world's population for a more concerted IAL campaign, later. In theory, Chinese characters can be converted into internationally readable form - via DS, and, as such, the spirit of international communication will be fostered, even thogh speedwords cannot be pronounced. When we have a satisfactory product, we will put it out as Shareware. Sometimes I have the feeling that Conlangers try too hard to present themselves as doing pure research and avoiding any image of applied research. Although Lojbab promotes Lojban quite dominantly, I feel he cannot be accused of commercialising the language. In my promotions of Glosa, on the other hand, accusations of commercial self-seeking have been made. Needless to say, this only tends to encourage me ... suggesting that some people perceive Glosa as a potentially commercially viable threat to their own particular Planned Language project. In the case of Duttons Speedword, however, while Anthony and I will present our work as a genuine contribution to internationalism, we will also promote it directly as a commercial product. For Free Global Communication (FGC), Robin Robin >From lojbab@access.digex.net Mon Dec 6 21:42:35 1993 From: Logical Language Group Message-Id: <199312062041.AA25466@access.digex.net> Subject: Affective Language To: conlang@diku.dk Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 15:41:33 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2480 The bulk of this posting is an extended quotation from "Tamil and the Dravidian Languages", by Sanford B. Seever, from >The World's Major Languages<, ed. B. Comrie. It raises issues which I believe are both extremely relevant to, and usually neglected by, constructed-language designers. I have taken liberties with transliteration and formatting. Any resulting errors are solely my responsibility. 2.5 The Grammar of Affective Language in Modern Standard Tamil Like many languages of the world, modern standard Tamil provides its speakers with a variety of grammatical devices which are conventionally used to express the speaker's affective or emotional state. Three such stylistic devices are discussed to give the reader an idea of the rhetorical possibilities of the language. [But only the first appears in this quotation.] Onomatopoeic words (olikutippu) are so numerous in modern standard Tmail that they fill an entire dictionary. Such words generally represent a sound, and are syntactically joined to a sentence by means of the verb >ena< 'say', e.g. kacu nang entu kize vizuntatu coin *clang* saying down fell The coin fell down with a clang. pustakam top(pu) entu kize vizuntatu book *thud* saying down fell The book fell down with a thud. Many occur reduplicated, e.g. >munumunu< 'murmur, mutter', >tonutonu< 'sound of beating drums'. Often they acquire a standard meaning so that >tonutonu< comes to mean 'bitching, complaining', while >kutukutu< 'scratching, throbbing pulse' comes to mean 'guilt', e.g. avan manacu kutkutu entu mayangkinatu his mind *guilt* saying was:confused His mind was confused with guilt. Some onomatopoeic stems, but by no means all, can themselves be inflected as verbs, e.g. avan oyamal tonutonukkinan he ceaselessly *bitch*es The phonological shapes of these words often depart from what the phonotactic rules of modern standard Tamil allow: >nang< 'clang' has an initial retroflex [not represented in this ASCII transcription] and a final velar nasal. But despite that and despite the jaunty air they impart to a sentence, they are still an integeral part of modern standard Tamil and cannot be dismissed as quaint and ephemeral slang. Such forms loosely correspond to English onomatopoeic expressions with the prefix >ka-< or >ker-<, e.g. The bomb went ka-boom. The boy fell ker-splash into the lily pond. -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban. >From jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk Tue Dec 14 13:34:44 1993 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 13:34:44 GMT Message-Id: <22984.9312141334@s5.sys.uea.ac.uk> X-Sender: jrk@139.222.1.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: HOOM of GALAXY I found this on Usenet. -- ____ Richard Kennaway __\_ / School of Information Systems jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk \ X/ University of East Anglia \/ Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K. From: Galaxy@aasol.msk.su (Alexei Soloview) Newsgroups: sci.logic,alt.messianic,comp.ai.phiosophy, comp.ai.edu,rec.arts.sf-lovers Subject: HOOM of GALAXY [4] Date: Sun, 12 Dec 93 22:23:31 +0300 Distribution: world Organization: Galaxy Nation Inc., A. Soloview Message-ID: Sender: news-service@kiae.su Reply-To: Galaxy@aasol.msk.su Keywords: HOOM, LANGUAGE, SPEAK, MUSIC, GALAXY Summary: New HOOM language! X-Return-Path: kiae!aasol!aasol.msk.su!Galaxy Lines: 144 TO: ALL Subj: HOOM: LANGUAGE of GALAXY [4] HOOM: LINGUISTIC HIDDENSPACES Rood Hume Copyright (C) 1993 Galaxy Nation, Netherlands All things in the Universe have two sides: the visible one, the foreside of its vizible properties and the invizible backside, the hidden essence, the very kernel of the thing as it is. The human language is not an exeption. Pause in speach is not simply nothing: sometimes it is more meaningful than the speach itself. In HOOM the pauses (spaces in written form) have just equal rights with all other signs, phonemes,etc. Their meanings depend upon the context (as all other signs), one may freely use the pause for designating almoust everything. And physical features of the pause itself allow to reflect such properties as duration and depth (size) - relative to the phoneme intensity (loudness),etc. One may notice that the language has another type of speach flow interruptions having much more physical features than simple pauses. They are well-known as consonants. In fact, consonant phonemes are not sounds of such type as vowels, they are different kinds of sound interruptions. But these interruptions form the body of the language itself, it's articulation. The articulation (system of consonant interruptions of the sound flow) transform simple melody (tones with chords) to a real human speach. Due to this it just clear why in HOOM the consonants are used for designating a hidden essence, a functional internal kernel of the things (or events), while the vowels designate the vizual,external properties of them only. Due to this opposition the consonants (and their meanings) are classified in relation to their opposite vowel partners or with the help of them. It is difficult to show here all the strict scientific reasons for the classification (it will be done later in one of especial scientific papers on HOOM) so i will describe here the connections (oppositions) between the consonants and the vowels in HOOM. They form the phonetic system of HOOM language. ( In fact we have the only one abstract phoneme in HOOM: all the so-called "phonemes" are just the forms of this single one!). The system of their abstract meanings is forming at the same time. So, HOOM has the following oppositions (external, phenomenal against internal, essential): A,O / H,G,K,J (pronounced as in words "Good","High","Kook","Juice") have the common meaning of "changes", "alive" or "dead" ... U / W,V,B,P,F,M (as in words "Very","Baby","Put","Foot"), the meaning of "united", "agressive", "male" ... I / L,D,T,S,Z,N (as in words "Look","Do","Tool","Soon","Zoo"), "diffuse", "sacrificing","female" ... NOTE that simple English letters are used in HOOM, but their pronouncation do not change from word to word. Among the vowels HOOM has these oppositions: O / A as a harmonic chord (O) against unharmonic (A),with the meaning: passive / active (pronounced as in "tOp", "hArmony") O,A / U,I -correspondingly, as based on the first formant (O,A) against basing on the second formant (U,I), which means: single / "social" U / I as a harmonic (U) (in relation to the second formant) against unharmonic (I) means: agressive / sacrificing (pronounced as in "pUt", "kId") HOOM consonants have the oppositions: H / G (may be prolonged (H) or not (G,K) designs: verbs / nouns L /D (the same) W,V/B (the same) G / K; D / T; B / P design: nouns / ajectives (or adverbs) Oppositions: G / J; D / S,Z ; B / F correspond to the category of modality. M and N show the plural nature of the essence associated with. It may seem to be suprising but just these very abstract meanings support an exact process of HOOM words constructing. But at first one must choose the proper context, naturally. Thus in the context of everyday life we may easily construct the basic HOOM vocabulary meanings of such words as: O - everyday life, passive nature, object, food, etc. A - all the disturbing factors, active nature, subject, poison, etc. U - agressive, unifying stable nature, glue, etc. I - sacrifying diffuse unstable nature, dust, etc. When constructing the meanings of different HOOM syllables let us assume that for the subjects their activity come from inside (essence) to outside, so the essence show itself (is transformed into) in some external properties, abilities. Thus for the subjects in general we will have syllables where the first sound is consonant and the second - is vowel, like: Go, di, ha, etc. For objects generally we have just an opposite situation: the essential reasons of their activity lay outside in the external world and have to be imprinted into their essence. So here we have words/syllables like: Ud, Im,etc. Noticing once more that all HOOM words/operators have to be realized as some transformations, or relations, mediums (symmetry!), processes, events,etc. we may get the following everyday interpretations of the syllables: ag - activity,work,fire,etc. ah - to activate, to liven up, ... ,aAh (Aah) - will (was) activate(d),... ak - artificial,... am - progressive,dynamic world,... and inversing: ga - reformer,worker, initiator,etc. (gaA -future,young reformer) ha - to change, to transform,... ka changeable, convertable,... and so on, and so on. It is so simple that everyone could build HOOM words and understand their meanings. More customary "words" as combinations of syllables are constructed just at the same way: by realizing each word to be some form of transformation, transition (relation) from one syllable (and it's meaning!) to another. So for more complicated and concrete operators we have: gaog (ga -> og or creator (ga) -> food (og) ) means cow,...etc., gaoh - to grow ( gaOoh - grew, gaoOh - will grow), and so on. Now using Callord or it's vocabulary (and much larger vocabulary of LiveLord and special issues you may Speak HOOM easily. In the next lecture i will discuss several HOOM examples to show how to make sentences and all other lectures will be more scientific: mathematical acpects of HOOM, HOOM artificial intelligence and HOOM programming, space-time physics in HOOM, problems of magic,and ghosts reality, scientific experiment with the help of HOOM, etc. P.S. Galaxy Nation is going to open special HOOM forum where lectures, chapters of different sci.fiction books/HOOM manuals, stories, songs and poems on HOOM as well as HOOM scientific papers and software advertisment will be published. Those who want to take part in HOOM communication, please write to me shortly: "I, [Name] want to join the Galaxy Nation". -- Alexei, E-mail: Galaxy@aasol.msk.su --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From 71174.2735@compuserve.com Sat Dec 14 12:37:02 1993 Date: 14 Dec 93 17:37:02 EST From: Rick Harrison <71174.2735@compuserve.com> To: Subject: HOOM parts 1-3 (long) Message-Id: <931214223701_71174.2735_DHQ81-1@CompuServe.COM> Here's parts 1-3 of the postings on HOOM. Comments, anyone? From: Galaxy@aasol.msk.su (Alexei Soloview) Newsgroups: sci.logic,alt.messianic,comp.ai.philosophy,comp.ai.edu, rec.arts.sf-lovers Subject: HOOM of GALAXY [1] Date: Sun, 12 Dec 93 22:19:59 +0300 Distribution: world Organization: Galaxy Nation Inc., A. Soloview Keywords: HOOM, LANGUAGE, SPEAK, MUSIC, GALAXY Summary: New HOOM language! X-Return-Path: kiae!aasol!aasol.msk.su!Galaxy Lines: 138 To : All From: Alexei Soloview, Galaxy Nation Inc. Subj: HOOM of GALAXY [1] Send you the first lecture about HOOM basic principles.It is "theoretic" to some extent, but don't be afraid, the next lectures and the practical HOOM speaking are much more easier! And you are welcome to join to a free association of HOOM speaking people all over the world - Galaxy Nation. Please, copy and resend the first recevied HOOM document to any forums and nets available to spread it widely. Thank you. HOOM: BACK TO THE FUTURE ! Rood Hume Copyright (C) Galaxy Nation, Netherlands Human history is full of paradoxes and the history of science is not the exception. The very next step to the future suddenly appears to be a return to the well forgotten past. It happened so, that more than ten years of intensive investigations in the field of Artificial Intelligence resulted in a radically effective mathematical theory which now turns to be closely connected with the symbolical systems of ancient myths, occult science and magic rituals. It is symbolical that the very first in the history program which really demonstrates the features of Intelligence, the program which can talk with You just at the same way as Your best friend uses to, this program was designed in the cross area of the future and the past. Based on an especially developed for man/computer as well for man/man communication universal language HOOM this amazing program (named CALLORD) is on the market now and everybody can easily see how it works. HOOM, being the next step of up-to-date mathematics, as a really universal symbolical system is very close to the natural human languages. It means simply that You can learn it from the earliest childhood, just as Your native language, You may talk in HOOM, sing songs in HOOM, write in HOOM Your letters, etc. And with all that capabilities HOOM is much more easier to learn and to deal with than any natural language or traditional mathematics, for example. The basic principles of HOOM are the follows: a) Absolutely wide material signs and forms conventionality. It allowes to consider different forms of human activity: mathematics, music, poetry, literature and even technology, etc. as different forms of linguistic activity, different "codifications", "dialects"of one and the same universal language. b) Whole language syntactic and semantic forms constructivity, relative to those taken as axiomatic in a concrete context. It means that every syllable, every word or sentence in HOOM are constructed with the use of basis forms, which may be taken as "basis" in one context or one concrete user and that may be not basis forms in another context or for another user at all. Just the same is the situation with the meanings of this forms. It is the real principle of HOOM general relativity. c) Unlimited recursivity (recursive symmetry) for all linguistic forms ( ego-operators). This is the property of self-action and self-interaction, nonlinear logic of HOOM. The first three principles forms the global symmetry of HOOM which leads to the fractal structure, fractal geometry of HOOM linguistic space. It means that all the properties of HOOM are just the same in every point/sign (elementary or not) of HOOM space, they are invariant. And it is amazing that namely this properties of symbolical structure one can find as the main principles of ancient magic systems! d) Global semantic and syntactic sensitivity. The meaning always depends upon the context, verbal or extraverbal (context of situation, concrete user, etc.) e) Strict structure isomorphism of the language forms and object/subject functional interdependencies. The isomorphic connections allow an adequate (context sensitive) translation from one HOOM dialect to another (from mathematics to music and vice versa for example!). This leads to fantastic property that mathematical formulae in HOOM become the poetry lines and even the magic formulae in corresponding (magic) context ! g) Interpretation of all language forms as symmetry operators, transformations, transmutations temporal, spatial, material, ideal, etc. This corresponds to the world of different processes, events. One can see that HOOM and other programming languages differs radically. But HOOM is very close to the modern abstract algebra from one side and to the natural languages from another. And with all this it is fantastically simple in learning. Try CALLORD which may be used as a HOOM manual too, and You will see it by Your own eyes! Programming in HOOM is quite different in comparison with traditional computer languages. You simply are trying "to explain" what kind of problem You have and what do You think about the ways of its solving. CALLORD talk with You and step by step You are coming to the solution. It seems to be close to the threaded interpretatie languages such as Forth but it is almoust real-time creative dialogue with Your Computer,too! ( To be true we must notice that the special professional problem solving needs corresponding special HOOM/English vocabularies, but if one knows HOOM principles sufficiently well it is not difficult for him to create such a vocabulary itself. You may bye it at last!) Such a friendly-oriented system is a result of fact that HOOM working program consists of great number of freely talking each other and self-reflecting "persons", it is really the living field of multi-ego with the full equality of rights between the different "ego's". The human ego of the user is just the only one among them. Every HOOM structure without any exeption forms the corresponding ego. So HOOM style of programming may be called ego-oriented. Using the second, professional version of CALLORD you may simply "translate", transfer interesting ideas, solutions, inventions from one field of research to another. You may transform an anecdote into a detailed new technological description, or algorithm and so on. You may exchange ideas with you friends in HOOM all over the world keeping all your secrets, because nobody know your own professional (or private, may be) vocabulary! And you may use musical sounds and musical phrases just as words-operators of HOOM (musical context) that leads to fine music creating. To demonstrate how HOOM works, in what way the forms and their meanings are constracted let us consider simple HOOM word OA (operator, event, process, etc.) . In basic (common use) HOOM vocabulary OA means "hello" or the verb "to come" ( in professional quantum field physics vocabulary OA is the differential quantum particle creating operator). Recursivity process (self-reflecting, OA self-acting to OA) generally leads to the opposite, inverse form of operator: (OA)OA = AO. The meaning of AO is inverse too: "good bye", or "to leave" (in physics AO is particle destroying operator). The complex of these two operators (formal group multiplication): OAO is the transformation of OA into AO, "hello" into "good bye", which in common life can mean only something near "stay here", or simply "to be", "to stay". In physics OAO means the life time of the particle, or in other words the time interval during which it exists. Just the same universal rules are used in all other structures and on all levels of HOOM language. In practice it is so simple (quite unlike the theory!) that words constructing looks like a good game! It may take too much time to describe all the amazing features of HOOM and CALLORD that seems to be fantastic and unbelievable. Try it Yourself and The Gate to Universe will be opened for You! P.S. The next lectures on HOOM are following. -- Alexei, UseNet Mail Galaxy@aasol.msk.su Article 5409 (529 more) in sci.logic: From: Galaxy@aasol.msk.su (Alexei Soloview) Subject: HOOM: language of GALAXY [2] Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 18:55:28 +0300 Distribution: world Organization: Galaxy Nation Inc., A. Soloview Keywords: HOOM, LANGUAGE Summary: New HOOM language X-Return-Path: kiae.UUCP!newcom.kiae.su!aasol!aasol.msk.su!Galaxy Lines: 140 TO: ALL Subj: HOOM: LANGUAGE of GALAXY [2] HOOM: FREEDOM FIELDS Rood Hume Copyright (C) 1993 Galaxy Nation Inc., Netherlands * * * Without any doubt freedom is the most important thing in our social world, in the world of people. Freedom forms the foundation of human private hapiness as well as the basis of modern economy. There are still one question: how many people do realize that freedom is just the kernel of our personality? I will show later that freedom is properly an essence of the very definition of information itself, actually being it's so-called superpartner. So let us consider this as a fact together with the quantum matter of information which is proved now by the quantum field theory. While discovering the main properties of HOOM language we will see how it's main principles correspond to different sides of reality. The very first principle is absolutely wide material signs conventionality of HOOM. You are almoust free in considering any matherial things or events as different HOOM signs or in redesignating them. It allows, for example, to consider scientific research as an information flow from the Nature, from the Unknown to the scientist, to the subject and vice versa. While running the information is transformed, translated for many times from the code of elementary natural events to the code (language) of experimental devices (considered here as a system of material signs), than to the code of digits and later to mathematical theory language and the code of neuron signals in our brains.As it was proved in quantum theory we have the back flow of information at the same time, so the experimental research may be considered as a real dialogue with Unknown. Dialogue,where scientific equipment plays a role of simple compiler! Since the very first almoust free conventional designation (for any thing) is done another HOOM principles come to power. The first designation is of great importance because it defines the field of reality which you start to describe, your starting point, point of reference.And on the other hand it defines a HOOM dialect which you want to use now and what kind of material signs (things or special sounds,syllables,words) you will take. Although there are no restrictions the best choice for the first designation for people communication due to our human nature will be a simpliest sound (like A,O,U ,...) or how it was done in basic HOOM vocabulary - intonation. Let us consider, for example, that one of us chooses for HOOM describing (forming context vocabulary) the main field of his own interest - physics, and another - the field of human everyday life (Basic HOOM context). HOOM principle of isomorphism demands that elementary sound (intonation) has to correspond to a functionally elementary (fundamental) thing (or event) in the chosen field. After some reflection one may understand that for people it has to be simple abstract human being only. In physics context it corresponds to the quantum Universe in it's original non-differentiated state (so-called quantum Vacuum). To distinguish being from non-being (or Vacuum from Nothing) let us designate the Being and Vacuum as stressed sounds (any of vocalics: O,A,I...), while Non-Being and Nothing remains unstressed( o,a,i...). After these simple but very important designations were done the HOOM principles of isomorphism and HOOM signs interpretation as symmetry operators start working together. The meanings are created at the same time with the constructing of linguistic forms. So, a word aA (small letters - unstressed,capital - stressed) in physics will mean "the Creating of the Universe" ( a->A process, transformation operator of symmetry )and Aa ( A -> a ) will be "the Universe Death", correspondingly. For the context of human being we have the meaning of yours "arriving", "appearing", or simply "coming", "awakening", may be used as "hello" and all associated with. An opposite Aa will be "departing", "disappearing", "good- bye",...etc. One can see that HOOM words/operators (intonation is a kind of HOOM operator, or "word"!), the very first words especially have very abstract, diffuse meanings or simply have a set of meanings associated with (polisemy). With further constructing of more complicated words their meanings step by step become more and more concrete,definite. But the very first HOOM words are not distinguished even by the grammar categories yet: aA means "to arrive", "arrived""birth","to born" and so on. You may use such words in a concrete context or situation only. ( Do not be afraid,in real communication we always know about what we are talking, what context we are using now. It just looks like your shout: "Hey, you - out!" ) Those who love natural languages - be quite: HOOM have all of the grammar categories and rules which one can find in linguistics,but they will appear later. Further HOOM words and meanings construction is very simple.More concrete and more complicated words are always constructed by the abstract ones. Thus having aA and Aa as opposite words we can consider the process of transform- ation aA to Aa ( aAa: aA -> Aa, Aa starts at the point A where aA finishes ). The way (transformation) from "hello" to "good-bye" in everyday life means simply "to stay", "to be", or "staying", "living", "life",...etc. In physics for the whole abstract Universe it will mean the life of the total Universe or simply the abstract category of "time", "timing". Opposite operator AaA (AaA: Aa->aA ) or transition from "good-bye" to "hello" (from "death" to "birth" too ) as one can see is "revisiting", "repeating", "rebirth", "revival" or simply "keeping", "preservation". As it will be shown in the physical part of my lectures AaA corresponds to the abstract physical "space" opposite to "time". Easy to understand that this constructive process can be infinitely continued (and i show it later) to form different linguistic intonations, phonemes, syllables,...etc. on one hand and to create the whole system of meanings corresponding to concrete contexts on the other hand. Basic HOOM vocabulary includes more than 12,000 words now and in physics HOOM has enough operators to work as an effective mathematical tool of fundamental quantum superspace theory. By the way, HOOM is much more easier than traditional mathematics: the main principles and formulae of such advanced theories as General Relativity and Quantum Superfield Theory can be exactly explained even to the school-boys. They are simply evident to all who knows HOOM slightly. Special context HOOM vocabularies are developed now in the fields of theoretical chemistry, technical inventions, artificial intelligence, music and even such especial form of human activity as... abusing. The number of such different HOOM vocabularies is almoust unlimited, because any thing, any process or event in the Universe may be chosen as a starting reference point of some vocabulary. As for the structure of these vocabularies they are all of the same type (isomorphic to each other) how it is determined by HOOM grammar laws. The reference points (things, events) work like different points of view, which allow us to describe one and the same thing or event in different contexts,different situations and interactions. On the other hand you may use one and the same HOOM words/ operators in communication with people of different professions and interests in the case when they have their own special HOOM vocabularies. You will exactly understand each other while speaking about absolutely different things! It seems to be fantastic but you will see it by your own eyes. When you start talking HOOM you suddenly get a strong feeling of freedom, freedom to choose your personal opininion,point of view, freedom to go everywhere in the intellectual universe, to understand all in the world. There are no restricted areas to you now, everything and everybody are opened to you. Nothing is wraping your hands and minds now. You discover that many things which seemed to be very complicated are in fact quite simple. This freedom feeling is a simple reflection of HOOM structure properties. HOOM is one and the same in everyday life, in mathematics, in physics, in music, in technic, in logic and magic. Information can flow freely from one distant field to another, from one nation to the other. HOOM unites the --MORE--(94%)creative people all over the world in one nation: Nation of Galaxy. P.S. Galaxy Nation is going to open special HOOM forum where lectures, chapters of different sci.fiction books/HOOM manuals, stories, songs and poems on HOOM as well as HOOM scientific papers and software advertisment will be published. Those who want to take part in HOOM communication, please write to me shortly: "I, [Name] want to join the Galaxy Nation". -- Alexei, Galaxy Nation Inc, Galaxy@aasol.msk.su * * * Article 5414 (528 more) in sci.logic: From: Galaxy@aasol.msk.su (Alexei Soloview) Subject: HOOM language of GALAXY [3] Date: Fri, 26 Nov 93 20:40:51 +0300 Distribution: world Organization: Galaxy Nation Inc., A. Soloview Keywords: HOOM, GALAXY, INTELLIGENCE, SPEACH, MUSIC Summary: HUMAN INTELLINGECE IN YOUR PC. (SPEACH AND MUSIC) X-Return-Path: kiae.UUCP!newcom.kiae.su!aasol!aasol.msk.su!Galaxy Lines: 117 TO: ALL Subj: HOOM: LANGUAGE of GALAXY [3] HOOM: MUSIC & SPEACH IN ONE Copyright (C) 1993 Galaxy Nation Inc., Netherlands * * * "Music is an art of intonation" - said one clever man.And in fact, many centuries ago music was born by rythm and melody of human speach. In the very early research on HOOM field it was discovered that keys to the problem of language lay in the intonation. Intonation forms the real foundation of all human languages and play the corresponding role in communication (and in such arts as hypnosis and magic!). There are rythm and melody of a speach, of a sentence,a word, a syllable, ...etc. Intonations are placing one upon another and form the whole spectrum of natural human speach and singing. Let us to consider the intonation structure of a single sound at first. Naturally i will use HOOM principles in this analysis. From the previous lecture you know that transformation or transition from unstressed to stressed sound (such as oO,aA,iI,..etc. - and for the whole syllables or words we will have: guU,rijA,hetI,...etc.)means the borning process of something,it's birth. Note, that when we are talking about something you have to mean the creating of the main function main property of this thing, it's functional kernel,it's "quality" - in the context or situation where you are. Opposite construction, the HOOM operator "stressed/unstressed" (Oo,Uu... or for words: gUga,mIra,...) has the meaning of death process, dying, destructing, so on (In fact you may redesignate O->o, o->O at any time and you will invert all the meanings). Remember that i am talking only about the meanings of intonations themselves now and they have nothing to do with the concrete sounds which are intoned or stressed! Intonation operators like oOo,iIi (words intoning: hikAru,agYti,...) mean temporal,time-restricted,life,living, simply"time",etc. Opposite OoO, AaA ( for words: tUhidA,...) have the meaning of recreating, recreation, revival,survival, preservation... and space, spatial (equivalence in math.) Easy to see that the last operator means repeat in stressing,so the rythm construction oOoO (iambic step in poetry) as a transition oO->oO may be translated as repeating,surviving oO, reviving life. (In fact it may be considered as oOo->OoO too,which leads to just close translation: preserving of temporal). Opposite OoOo ( inverse operator Oo -> Oo ) as deaths repeating means something close to "permanent dying" or "continuous departing" In poetry it is trocheic step. Note that you may repeat oO or Oo in this operators many times without any difference: oOoOoO means just the same as oOoO because there is no plural grammar category here yet. Going further this way you can construct operators like more complicated poetry steps: oOoOo ( oOo -> oOo )which means repeating of lives, of beings, "the line of generations","related", "native", etc.( as a transition oOo -> OoO -> oOo is overcoming through death! ) Opposite OoOoO means "line of deaths", "mortal", "fatal",etc., but not only this, naturally. Here we get plural category for the first time. Plurals (quantities) may be differentiated into continuous OoOoO (having single life oOo as a medium,non-interrupted) and discrete oOoOo (interrupted by death OoO or by space in physics). I must note once more that HOOM words, intonation operators especially are polysemic to a great extent, they may have meanings which seems to be quite different,often opposite. But be careful,all these meanings form a strict system which you will understand adequately only when you will become an experienced HOOM speaker. Create new meanings and take them as facts at first. Other meanings of different vocabularies corresponding to distant contexts you may get from the Galaxy Nation too. According to HOOM principle of isomorphism we have to use quantative properties of sound (duration, loudness, staccato and legato pronounciation) to design the new discovered quantative meanings. Thus from this point the operators (sounds) are differentiated by duration (which means just difference in relative duration of events, lives), by loudness (many sounds/ events in one and the same time what means space size or mass,etc.). Staccato and legato pronounciation mean discrete or continuous forms of events or things, correspondingly. You may (and it occures in real speach every time) apply these intonation operators to the syllables, to the words to words groups and to the whole sentences at the same time (superposition) and you will get the whole spectrum of loudness, durations, repeats which we have usually in music or in singing. So in HOOM speach one can reflect all the quantative properties and relations of the real world (but naturally it is not sufficient to use in mathematics yet!). Different tones (sound frequency) in HOOM design different states of one thing or event, just as the normal tone of voice corresponds to the main state,to the quality of the thing. The lower tone corresponds to original and the higher to future state, such as if A designates a man, A\ (low) will be a child and A/ (high) will be an old man. Remember that these states have to be "fundamental" to some extent,such as three physical states of matter (solid-liquid-gas) and so on. The superposition of intoning the vowels,words,words groups and sentences and the qulitative tone differentiation forms a melody of HOOM speach which sounds like music now (and in fact music is one of HOOM's dialects). However, in HOOM you may choose freely the ways of your own to explain something - it may be singing, music or simple monotonic speach, even in formulae. One must understand that in all cases of the superposition of durations, stresses (loudness), repeats or tones,etc. you must superpose the meanings of the operators too. Thus the meanings become much more complicated and carry much more information (By the way this is the methode of translating music to "normal" language!) and this is a form of HOOM context sensitivity. Those who know music theory,even slightly, realize that note series form so-called melodic chords (opposite to harmonic chords,where all the notes sounds at the same time). In HOOM intonation we have such melodic chords, representing the transmutation of states in time. Opposite harmonic chords, describing a thing with many properties (qualities) are represented in HOOM by phonemesunits of speach,forming the way from intonation to the real sounds of natural language. Different formants (frequency spectrum maximums) in these phonemes reflect different properties of the thing. Just from this point my HOOM presentation becomes much more similar to the category "language" as it is in common sense. ( to be continued ) P.S. Galaxy Nation is going to open special HOOM forum where lectures, chapters of different sci.fiction books/HOOM manuals, stories, songs and poems on HOOM as well as HOOM scientific papers and software advertisment will be published. Those who want to take part in HOOM communication, please write to me shortly: "I, [Name] want to join the Galaxy Nation". -- Alexei, Galaxy Nation Inc., UseNet address: Galaxy@aasol.msk.su * * * >From 71174.2735@compuserve.com Thu Dec 26 18:50:01 1993 Date: 26 Dec 93 23:50:01 EST From: Rick Harrison <71174.2735@compuserve.com> To: Subject: conlang files Message-Id: <931227045001_71174.2735_DHQ26-1@CompuServe.COM> Whatever happened to the collection of conlang-related files that used to reside at langserv@hebrew.cc.columbia.edu? >From shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu Mon Dec 27 05:06:43 1993 From: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 10:06:43 -0500 Message-Id: <199312271506.KAA25125@startide.ctr.columbia.edu> To: conlang@diku.dk Subject: conlang files >Whatever happened to the collection of conlang-related files that >used to reside at langserv@hebrew.cc.columbia.edu? We've still got them somewhere, but the server seems to have given out on us and we no longer wield much influence at Columbia. Anyone out there want to donate some space and accounts for us to bring this back? ~mark >From 71174.2735@compuserve.com Sun Dec 29 15:18:10 1993 Date: 29 Dec 93 20:18:10 EST From: Rick Harrison <71174.2735@compuserve.com> To: Subject: Klingon translation software Message-Id: <931230011810_71174.2735_DHQ78-1@CompuServe.COM> forwarded from Usenet's "rec.arts.startrek.current" newsgroup From: "Larry C. Stanley" Subject: Klingon Translator Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 09:31:45 -0500 Organization: University Libraries - Library Automatio, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 27 NNTP-Posting-Host: po2.andrew.cmu.edu Hello, I have been working on a Klingon to English/English to Klingon Translator for the past year. I decided that a zipped version of shareware was the best way to get the translator to the most people. The translator includes the almost 2 thousand words contained in Marc Okrand's, Klingon Dictionary. At this stage of development I haven't included most of the affixes but I will if I see enough interest in the program. Now let's get to the reason I'm posting to this Bboard. Can someone point me in the direction of an FTP site that will allow the distribution of my translator. Instruction on protocol will help. yIn nI' je chep Thanks In Advance; Larry Stanley %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Larry C. Stanley % % % Library Automation % The needs of the many % % Carnegie Mellon University % outweigh the needs of the few % % Hunt Library % or the one. % % Frew Street % % % Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213 % % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From: "Larry C. Stanley" Subject: FTP For Klingon Translator Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 13:27:43 -0500 Organization: University Libraries - Library Automatio, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: po5.andrew.cmu.edu Hello Again, With help from the Tecnical Support Rep at UUNET Technologies I just transfered a copy of my Klingon Translator to a temp directory on ftp.uu.net. The directory is purged on a regular basis but for now you can get the program at: ftp ftp.uu.net Login as anonomous then use you email address as your password. The file name is 1klingon.zip and can be found in the /tmp directory. Please remember to type binary and then press return at the prompt before using the get command to retreve the file. You will need a copy of pkunzip to open the program. When the program is unzipped type go then press enter to start the program. The program will work with a CGA or better screen. Larry Stanley %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Larry C. Stanley % % Library Automation % The needs of the many % Carnegie Mellon University % outweigh the needs of the few % Hunt Library % or the one. % Frew Street % % Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213 % % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >From shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu Thu Dec 30 05:08:50 1993 From: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 10:08:50 -0500 Message-Id: <199312301508.KAA01374@startide.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com Subject: Klingon translation software > I have been working on a Klingon to English/English to Klingon >Translator for the past year. I decided that a zipped version of >shareware was the best way to get the translator to the most people. >The translator includes the almost 2 thousand words contained in Marc >Okrand's, Klingon Dictionary. At this stage of development I haven't >included most of the affixes but I will if I see enough interest in the >program. > Now let's get to the reason I'm posting to this Bboard. Can someone >point me in the direction of an FTP site that will allow the >distribution of my translator. Instruction on protocol will help. > yIn nI' je chep We're supposed to take seriously someone who says "yIn nI' je chep"??? Even if it weren't a Vulcan wish, it's not close to grammatical! Maybe "qaStaHvIS poH nI' yIyIn 'ej yIchep", or maybe with "-jaj". >Thanks In Advance; Larry Stanley ~mark >From hrick@world.std.com Fri Dec 31 17:51:12 1993 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 22:51:12 -0500 From: hrick@world.std.com (Richard K Harrison) Message-Id: <199401010351.AA05966@world.std.com> To: conlang@diku.dk Subject: Speedwords data Happy happy, I have received the Dutton Speedwords materials from Ron Hale-Evans. Thanks, RHE! It will take me a while to work up a more detailed description of Speedwords, but for those who've been drooling with desire for this information, here's a little Speedwords grammar and vocabulary to whet the appetite. J atu k v fes c. & and a to French `a b but c this French Ce d of French De e am, are, (to) be, is Latin Est f for g them, they h has, (to) have i in j I, me French Je, Scand. Jeg k that (Fr. phonetic que) l the French Le m with German Mit, Scand. Med n not o on p can, be able to Fr. je Puis q do ...? (in questions) r will (future tense flag) futuRe s he, him t it u a, an French Un v you French Vous w us, we x if (`x' unknown quantity) y was, were z as ("as" is pronounced aZ) &c etcetera ab about ac purchase ad add(-ition) af business ag field ai also ak attack al all am love an year ap open aq water as ascend au hear av fly ax ask az always ba back be before bi life bo tree bu book by by ca room ce (to) receive reCEive ci decide, decision co collect(-ion) cu that [demonstrative adjective] da give de day di (to) say DIction, Fr. DIre do live, dwell du continue eb even ed end ef efficient, efficiency eg equal ek church el electric(-ity) em emotion en attention attENtion ep place er person es estimate fa do fe glad fi filament fo front fu few fy reason ga complete(-ly) ge together gi their(s) go (to) go, goes gu good German GUt ha possess he heat, hot ho height, high ia into ib possible id same ig general in between ip self, selves ir here ix out ja soon je every ji my, mine ju judge ka head ke credit ki move, motion ko (to) come German KOmmen ku enclose ky eat la large le letter li liquid lo long, length lu month ma (to) make me more mo without mu much my most na of course ne take ni neither no look (at) nu now Dutch and Scand. NU ny near(-ly) ob get of offer ok right ol receptacle om thing on man op against or or ot other ov over ox off oz occur, occasion pa pay(-ment) pe period pi may po after(-wards) pu think, thought qa how qe when qi who(m) qo where qu which qy why ra work re again ri (to) write wRIte ro list ru remain(-der) sa know(-ledge) se week sh her, she si his so so su better sy science ta late te time TimE ti its to amount tu touch ty ten ud many ul some um something up up ur return us use uv first uz once va war ve vehicle vi your(s) vo willing vu see, sight vy advice, advise we purpose wi our(s) wy white ye yes za dear ze (to) send Dutch ZEnden zi because zo animal zu condition atu hope bel beauty, beautiful blu blue cen hundred cir circle dem nation dor sleep eng narrow fas easy fes enjoy fra brother han hand hem half jun young jur law kil thousand lat side lin language (shades of Lincos and Vorlin! ;-) mek machine mol soft nor north num number ord order pap paper pur clean rap quick(-ly) rud red san health son sound ten hold val value ver green Days of the week: D1 = Sunday, D2 = Monday etc. Months of the year: L1 = January, etc. ========================= J n sa. I (do) not know. Q v sa qo g e. Do you know where they are? C e u gu de f t ce en. This is a good day for it to receive attention. W vy v ur 3 de be g ko ir. We advise you to return three days before they come here. ========================= grammar notes: The word "to" is omitted from infinitive verb expressions; thus _ce_ = "receive" or "to receive." Pronouns are not inflected to indicate case: _w_ = "we" or "us." The Speedwords letter _c_ is always pronounced like the English digraph "ch" [tS]. Numbers are written as numerals. Nouns do not inflect to indicate plurality when preceded by an adjective of quantity: _4_le_ = "four letters," _al_mer_ = "all mothers." Existential sentences do not contain the word `there': E 3 le ir f v = (There) are three letters here for you. An affix of opposites is used to expand the usefulness of the vocabulary. Words ending in consonants add -o, words ending in vowels add -x [allomorphy -- feh!]. Examples: ir = here, iro = there; up = up, upo = down; ov = over, ovo = under; he = hot, hex = cold. --- Rick Harrison hrick@world.std.com / 71174.2735@compuserve.com