my solstice whinge

[kimbo.parker]

i have been off air for about 12 months since my last new years eve resolution to cease speaking with clichés and jingoism, and other language of the herd.

as a hermit/recluse it was possible for me to get by with a wife who understands the nuances of grunts.

then i found Marain, the language of The Culture...a language un-evolved, designed by impeccable intelligence with Utilitarian motives.

so there could have been posts while i was learning, and bulk confusion as i attempted some posts in Marain only to be read as chinesed english " your mother sees my wooden chicken "

English ; careful selection of words, observation of grammar, use of punctuation....good sentence structure, logical paragraphs and what do you get -???

something that sounds like an advert for a car.

Marain gives to the word 'fuck', what Eskimo gives to the word 'snow'.
It is a language designed to be transmitted and it does to the 'smiley' what the space shuttle did to the toy plane.

if you think i'm using clichés and jingoism here i could practically rest my case.

in a subtle twist of 'don't shoot the messenger' we arrive at ' because of the language of the message'.

Marian does not translate well certain current words....words of a scarcity driven Greedist society just dont find their counterpart in a language at home in more 'advanced paradigms'.

Like the word Permaculture ; tricky, and every time i try, i get something in Marain that looks like an address, or part of one.

Certain Marain jokes do not translate well over to English, and keep their humour.
an old Culture joke, the sort of thing that causes laughing from the first line in Marain, barely raises a squark in English....it goes;
Scientific Enquirey object porcelain statue - smash it
did it make noise? affirmative
was it speaking? un-answerable - smashed.

i told you.
in Marain, people would be snorting milk out their noses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marain#Language

[mischief]

Welcome home baby

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[kimbo.parker]

Marain, the Culture's quintessentially wonderful language (so the Culture will tell you), has, as any schoolkid knows, one personal pronoun to cover females, males, in-betweens, neuters, children, drones, Minds, other sentient machines, and every life-form capable of scraping together anything remotely resembling a nervous system and the rudiments of language (or a good excuse for not having either). Naturally, there are ways of specifying a person's sex in Marain, but they're not used in everyday conversation; in the archetypal language-as-moral-weapon-and-proud-of-it, the message is that it's brains that matter, kids; gonads are hardly worth making a distinction over.

my source; http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_sai...ns_in_mar.html

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