Ok, it's a bit early for a Halloween post, but I'd better do that now than forgetting it entirely.
Mezuromano (i.e. Lingua Romanica)
I've been very picky with overall sound changes and features of my "Mid-Romance" (that's actually what Mezuromano means - and it's neuter).
So here are a couple of the features which should reflect its split nature:
/k, p, t/ > /g, b, d/ after e, i (similarily /g, b, d/ become /ɣ, β, ð/)
/kt, fl, pl, cl/ > /xt, fʎ, pʎ, cʎ/ (a mid-point of the Western Romance /jt/>/t∫/, Eastern Romance /fj, pj, t∫/)
/-cl-/ > /ʎ/
And the special development of final u, which does not develop /ʊ/>/o/, but /u/ (so neuter -o and masculine -u can be distinguished!), beside /y/>/ɪ/, not /i/; so the 9 vowel system of Common Romance would be preserved in a thin way - maybe it would reflect the pronunciation of the 5th or 6th century.
iWizard
A sad part of iWizard is not yet completed (if you'd read it, you would probably cry), but slowly I'm going to leave it. A sneak peak won't be given this Halloween (I want to scare you, not make you cry!).
Somehow related to iWizard is a particular picture on my DeviantART account.
Meh... The first time I draw something like this (or, let's say, anthropomorphic creatures at all).
Take a look: http://imarkus.deviantart.com/#/d5ih2mh
I'll make a redraw (with better lines) for a profile pic. But read the copyright notice!
Did I forget something?
Oh, right, the iPad-Event.
Keeping it short:
-iPad mini: Nope, I'll get a new mobile phone which is only half the size, but as useful as this thing.
(Remember what Steve Jobs said last year? I'd have to sand down my fingers to use it properly!)
-iPad 4: See point 1 and add "it's too expensive". Plus, the Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx HD comes with LTE and NFC and it's a phone!
-iMac mini: I don't care. My iMac is running nicely, let it stay on my desk for two more years.
-Mac Book Pro 13": Who needs that? OK, Retina is good, but there is no optical drive - not for me.
-iMac: R U DAMN SERIOUS?! No SuperDrive and the 21,5" model isn't expandable?
And it is more expensive than the last one... I miss two turns.
So, stay hungry, foolish and tuned!
Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012
Freitag, 5. Oktober 2012
Unu annu... non oblidadu - One year, not forgotten...
October 5 th, 2012
It is exactly one year after Steve Jobs had passed away from us.
This year had several sad events at its hands, but this one was one of the more striking - it affected the whole world. And it is not coincidental that my book iWizard starts at this very day. It was arranged this day because something happened I could easily remember. And there are numerous sayings with the message "when something ends, new things begin".
A short post for a person which lived an unfortunately short, but still successful life.
Deus te salvet, Steven Paul Jobs.
It is exactly one year after Steve Jobs had passed away from us.
This year had several sad events at its hands, but this one was one of the more striking - it affected the whole world. And it is not coincidental that my book iWizard starts at this very day. It was arranged this day because something happened I could easily remember. And there are numerous sayings with the message "when something ends, new things begin".
A short post for a person which lived an unfortunately short, but still successful life.
Deus te salvet, Steven Paul Jobs.
Samstag, 29. September 2012
If you're curious what I'm doing... Read a preview of my book!
Well, here I am again.
It's been a while now, but I've got some great news: I installed the newest Macintosh operating system, and I'm enjoying out the Siri dictation feature - guess how I made this post. ^^
Before we get to the juicy part of this post, I am saying that I've made a shortcut - just a few lines - you'll get goosebumps!
In my romance language, there hasn't been much progress, I have been- again - tinkering about an authentically Vulgar Latin declension...
On the Mac side, Mountain Lion is fantastic. The dictation feature is working in Spanish (in my special pronunciation of ll), English, and German. And the Facebook integration has to be tested yet...
Now we come to the interesting part. Note that I am not naming any persons *here* from my book.
The action takes place on a class trip - the introducing sentence plays in a hostel, then the action moves outside of the building. Note: ω is a lower-case omega (the last letter of the Greek alphabet)!
„How can you allow him to leave the room? I don‘t feel the best today. I am tired too, but I don‘t want to make a hoopla out of it!“ She yells at me. The same moment I feel the prickling of my arm, like yesterday.
I run out the hostel, run up a hill and go up another. I feel so bad that I choke and throw up, with blood.
A stroke of pain rushes through my body, much stronger than yesterday. I grip my chest - my heart seems to explode.
I shriek. The same moment I feel my face lifting off my skull, especially the area around my nose is burning awfully.
This yields another shriek: „Oh my God, I‘m gonna die!“ The same time my throat is thickening, feels as if it's swelling.
Where I previously stood I crouch and stumble on the ground - almost suffocating. I see the full moon: A silver shining disk surrounded by foggy clouds.
Now it becomes clear to me: I sat near a window while preparing the poster, so the ω-radiation could initiate the transformation... - another rush of pain interrupts my thoughts...
Just a few lines so you get the idea - I hope you like it. I'll get you to see more on Halloween... You will be scared as hell... :-D
In the holidays I will be publishing a new Youtube video. I'll review OS X Mountain Lion, Parallels Desktop 8 and some more things.
Stay hungry, foolish, and tuned!
It's been a while now, but I've got some great news: I installed the newest Macintosh operating system, and I'm enjoying out the Siri dictation feature - guess how I made this post. ^^
Before we get to the juicy part of this post, I am saying that I've made a shortcut - just a few lines - you'll get goosebumps!
In my romance language, there hasn't been much progress, I have been- again - tinkering about an authentically Vulgar Latin declension...
On the Mac side, Mountain Lion is fantastic. The dictation feature is working in Spanish (in my special pronunciation of ll), English, and German. And the Facebook integration has to be tested yet...
Now we come to the interesting part. Note that I am not naming any persons *here* from my book.
The action takes place on a class trip - the introducing sentence plays in a hostel, then the action moves outside of the building. Note: ω is a lower-case omega (the last letter of the Greek alphabet)!
„How can you allow him to leave the room? I don‘t feel the best today. I am tired too, but I don‘t want to make a hoopla out of it!“ She yells at me. The same moment I feel the prickling of my arm, like yesterday.
A stroke of pain rushes through my body, much stronger than yesterday. I grip my chest - my heart seems to explode.
I shriek. The same moment I feel my face lifting off my skull, especially the area around my nose is burning awfully.
This yields another shriek: „Oh my God, I‘m gonna die!“ The same time my throat is thickening, feels as if it's swelling.
Where I previously stood I crouch and stumble on the ground - almost suffocating. I see the full moon: A silver shining disk surrounded by foggy clouds.
Just a few lines so you get the idea - I hope you like it. I'll get you to see more on Halloween... You will be scared as hell... :-D
In the holidays I will be publishing a new Youtube video. I'll review OS X Mountain Lion, Parallels Desktop 8 and some more things.
Stay hungry, foolish, and tuned!
Mittwoch, 12. September 2012
iPhone 5 Introduction - And Much More
Phew... I have been away from this blog for some time, but I'm still vertical.
And there's quite a bit to tell you.
Keynote Time
Phil Schiller is presenting us the iPhone 5!
LTE, bigger screen, Apple A6 CPU... well...
Only an 8 MP camera... couldn't there be an improvement? At least better low-light shots. ^^
Aaaaand we've got a panorama-mode: 28 MegaPixels. Plus three microphones.
The connector is a "Lightning" - 8 pins, small and you can stuck it into the iPhone 5 in any direction.
Also, Apple introduced a new Maps app - turn-by-turn navigation is free with iOS 6.
iOS - Siri: Facebook integration. And the iPhone 5 is available in black and white.
The iPhone 5 is available in $199 (16 GB), $299 (32GB) and $399 (64 GB), iPhone 4S $99 (16 GB) and the iPhone 4 for free (8 GB) with a contract. And we'll get a new iTunes app - Available in October.
iPods: New iPod nano - tiny, tiny phone. You can watch videos again - tiny...
iPod touch: Apple A5 CPU and 16:9 display ratio, no micro-SD slot, but a 5 MP camera.
Apple Loop: A loop for your iPod touch so you won't drop it. And Siri for the iPod touch with Bluetooth 4.0. The iPod touch is available in 5 colors.
New earbuds: called Earpods, included with all new iPods.
iPod shuffle is $49 for 2 GB, nano is 16 GB for $149, old iPod touch is 16 GB ($199), 32 GB ($249), new iPod touch ($299 - 32 GB), ($399 - 64 GB). Nano and new touch are available in October.
Yup. That's it.
But I've got more:
I have made some more sound changes for my Romance language - most important is <ng, nj ->ñ/gn/nh> and <-cl-, lj -> ll/gli/lh> written nj and lj respectiveley (because I wanted to make it geographically/nationally independent). The declension system is itching. AGAIN.
Verbs look French in the 2nd plural (-ti-/-di- > z, -te- > zi). Not much more news.
On the iWizard side I've been writing a bit more - a sad part is coming soon.
I'm also on DeviantArt.com (http://imarkus.deviantart.com) - a new Youtube video is coming soon after I've got OS X 10.8. And I've got Parallels Desktop 8, which will be reviewed in the video as well.
That's it - Stay hungry, foolish and tuned!
And there's quite a bit to tell you.
Keynote Time
Phil Schiller is presenting us the iPhone 5!
LTE, bigger screen, Apple A6 CPU... well...
Only an 8 MP camera... couldn't there be an improvement? At least better low-light shots. ^^
Aaaaand we've got a panorama-mode: 28 MegaPixels. Plus three microphones.
The connector is a "Lightning" - 8 pins, small and you can stuck it into the iPhone 5 in any direction.
Also, Apple introduced a new Maps app - turn-by-turn navigation is free with iOS 6.
iOS - Siri: Facebook integration. And the iPhone 5 is available in black and white.
The iPhone 5 is available in $199 (16 GB), $299 (32GB) and $399 (64 GB), iPhone 4S $99 (16 GB) and the iPhone 4 for free (8 GB) with a contract. And we'll get a new iTunes app - Available in October.
iPods: New iPod nano - tiny, tiny phone. You can watch videos again - tiny...
iPod touch: Apple A5 CPU and 16:9 display ratio, no micro-SD slot, but a 5 MP camera.
Apple Loop: A loop for your iPod touch so you won't drop it. And Siri for the iPod touch with Bluetooth 4.0. The iPod touch is available in 5 colors.
New earbuds: called Earpods, included with all new iPods.
iPod shuffle is $49 for 2 GB, nano is 16 GB for $149, old iPod touch is 16 GB ($199), 32 GB ($249), new iPod touch ($299 - 32 GB), ($399 - 64 GB). Nano and new touch are available in October.
Yup. That's it.
But I've got more:
I have made some more sound changes for my Romance language - most important is <ng, nj ->ñ/gn/nh> and <-cl-, lj -> ll/gli/lh> written nj and lj respectiveley (because I wanted to make it geographically/nationally independent). The declension system is itching. AGAIN.
Verbs look French in the 2nd plural (-ti-/-di- > z, -te- > zi). Not much more news.
On the iWizard side I've been writing a bit more - a sad part is coming soon.
I'm also on DeviantArt.com (http://imarkus.deviantart.com) - a new Youtube video is coming soon after I've got OS X 10.8. And I've got Parallels Desktop 8, which will be reviewed in the video as well.
That's it - Stay hungry, foolish and tuned!
Donnerstag, 9. August 2012
Last Days of Holiday...
So I came back from Poland and I've got a bunch of news for you...
iWizard
Indeed, I squashed one more chapter into the book: “Last Fight for Lost Friends” is going to be number 8 because of some recent events (mostly in Poland). It would be kind of sad, but it would throw another spotlight (not the OS X search function) on the family of the main character [spoiling: werefoxes :-D] and - as announced - another fight will be going on. So the book will span from October 6, 2011 until August 21, 2012 (the death of Steve Jobs and the end of this year's summer holidays in a specific federal state of Germany, respectively [do the research if you don't believe me!]).
As I said, I got many, many ideas during the three weeks I spent in Poland, but I also wrote a bit more into my Italian notebook (where iWizard is going to be in a beta version).
Heading over to something else...
Romanice (i.e. Lingua Romanica)
I have some good sound changes (and a kind of metaphony) for my Italo-Western-Romance, but I came to the conclusion that one strict “kind” of LR could prove problematic (both grammatically and due to different vocabulary in Spain and Italy [plus France, as a link]).
To overcome this, I decided to create dialects of my Romance (like do real languages have - compare Standard High German and Bavarian or Austrian German, Salesian and Standard Polish or northern Italian and southern Italian). And I wouldn't forget pronunciation variants (like Spanish).
To make the thing even more funny, I planned to drag the development of LR from 400 AD to this date.
Other than that, I finally got my copy of Mark Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit.
Even if I don't understand every single word, it indeed proves helpful.
And it turned out I'm on point 2 of the Rosenfelder-Skala; inventing a Romance language.
And I got an accompanying book for my calligraphy: Michelle Brown's A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600.
It not only provides me a look on writing styles as the Visigothic Script or the many variants of Merovingian scripts, but also on previously unknown, like the Ravenna Chancery Script.
The book is good enough, except that the example of the Beneventan Script is a bit early (10th century, I prefer 11th or 12th century) and the Italian vanriant of the Carolingian Script is missing also.
But then again, the book is quite old (contents from 1993, reprinted in 2007) and it is in black and white (due to its age, which is better, sometimes, than a blurred, hard-to-read color facsimile).
That's it for this time. Stay hungry, foolish and tuned!
Oh, one more thing: Since OS X Mountain Lion is out, I tell you that I'm going to upgrade to v.10.8 in September (- when Facebook integration arrived, but on my birthday anyway -) when some bugs are erased. And maybe I can install it together with Parallels Desktop 8 if it's on the market early enough (I won't wait for my local tech shop to have some copes anymore [because they did never have had the previous version when I asked for it]!).
iWizard
Indeed, I squashed one more chapter into the book: “Last Fight for Lost Friends” is going to be number 8 because of some recent events (mostly in Poland). It would be kind of sad, but it would throw another spotlight (not the OS X search function) on the family of the main character [spoiling: werefoxes :-D] and - as announced - another fight will be going on. So the book will span from October 6, 2011 until August 21, 2012 (the death of Steve Jobs and the end of this year's summer holidays in a specific federal state of Germany, respectively [do the research if you don't believe me!]).
As I said, I got many, many ideas during the three weeks I spent in Poland, but I also wrote a bit more into my Italian notebook (where iWizard is going to be in a beta version).
Heading over to something else...
Romanice (i.e. Lingua Romanica)
I have some good sound changes (and a kind of metaphony) for my Italo-Western-Romance, but I came to the conclusion that one strict “kind” of LR could prove problematic (both grammatically and due to different vocabulary in Spain and Italy [plus France, as a link]).
To overcome this, I decided to create dialects of my Romance (like do real languages have - compare Standard High German and Bavarian or Austrian German, Salesian and Standard Polish or northern Italian and southern Italian). And I wouldn't forget pronunciation variants (like Spanish).
To make the thing even more funny, I planned to drag the development of LR from 400 AD to this date.
Other than that, I finally got my copy of Mark Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit.
Even if I don't understand every single word, it indeed proves helpful.
And it turned out I'm on point 2 of the Rosenfelder-Skala; inventing a Romance language.
And I got an accompanying book for my calligraphy: Michelle Brown's A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600.
It not only provides me a look on writing styles as the Visigothic Script or the many variants of Merovingian scripts, but also on previously unknown, like the Ravenna Chancery Script.
The book is good enough, except that the example of the Beneventan Script is a bit early (10th century, I prefer 11th or 12th century) and the Italian vanriant of the Carolingian Script is missing also.
But then again, the book is quite old (contents from 1993, reprinted in 2007) and it is in black and white (due to its age, which is better, sometimes, than a blurred, hard-to-read color facsimile).
That's it for this time. Stay hungry, foolish and tuned!
Oh, one more thing: Since OS X Mountain Lion is out, I tell you that I'm going to upgrade to v.10.8 in September (- when Facebook integration arrived, but on my birthday anyway -) when some bugs are erased. And maybe I can install it together with Parallels Desktop 8 if it's on the market early enough (I won't wait for my local tech shop to have some copes anymore [because they did never have had the previous version when I asked for it]!).
Sonntag, 1. Juli 2012
Phew... Another Post.
It was some time since I wrote something into this blog. A bit trouble, some loss and just having "nothing to say" were the reasons. But now, I've got news for you.
iWizard
One of the saddest parts of iWizard are about to be sketched down. I won't tell you this one.
But, recently I had some ideas for the last chapter - Heading two Last Terms which is not that sad. iWizard should not become too sad, so I try to make the best of what happened.
Lingua Romanica
Some progress...
- stress rules <to be continued>
- definite articles (they look like crap -.-)
- some interrogatives
- personal pronouns <to be continued>
- relative pronouns (they look and sound worse than the definite articles and need to be finished)
- conjugation tables of regular present and simple past verbs, planned subjunctive present, past (future) and maybe a dedicated passive like Latin, present conjugation of "to be" (essere, stare)
- 22 of 256 basic words (8 in family, 6 in religion, 5 in animals, 3 in colors)
A partial description of the sound changes from Vulgar Latin to Lingua Romanica is on paper:
- collapse of quantities (a vowel trapezium has been made: seven (or eight, counting y) distinct phonemes, like Italian and Spanish), nine in an older variant (Proto-Romance in general)
- collapse of diphthongs
- r becomes a or u in certain places, cl becomes chi before a, o, u, an i is added to initial s
- open e and o become ie, uo in open and closed syllables (except former æ)
- various cases of metaphony (e.g.: vinea -> vinia)
For this reason, I try to obtain The Language Construction Kit and its addition Advanced Language Construction Kit (if it is available in fall/autumn this year).
Oh, right: I'm very impressed by the new MacBook Pro's Retina display. And price.
*$ 2600 for a thing with no hard drive and no optical drive - they must be kidding...*
That's it for now - stay hungry, foolish and tuned.
iWizard
One of the saddest parts of iWizard are about to be sketched down. I won't tell you this one.
But, recently I had some ideas for the last chapter - Heading two Last Terms which is not that sad. iWizard should not become too sad, so I try to make the best of what happened.
Lingua Romanica
Some progress...
- stress rules <to be continued>
- definite articles (they look like crap -.-)
- some interrogatives
- personal pronouns <to be continued>
- relative pronouns (they look and sound worse than the definite articles and need to be finished)
- conjugation tables of regular present and simple past verbs, planned subjunctive present, past (future) and maybe a dedicated passive like Latin, present conjugation of "to be" (essere, stare)
- 22 of 256 basic words (8 in family, 6 in religion, 5 in animals, 3 in colors)
A partial description of the sound changes from Vulgar Latin to Lingua Romanica is on paper:
- collapse of quantities (a vowel trapezium has been made: seven (or eight, counting y) distinct phonemes, like Italian and Spanish), nine in an older variant (Proto-Romance in general)
- collapse of diphthongs
- r becomes a or u in certain places, cl becomes chi before a, o, u, an i is added to initial s
- open e and o become ie, uo in open and closed syllables (except former æ)
- various cases of metaphony (e.g.: vinea -> vinia)
For this reason, I try to obtain The Language Construction Kit and its addition Advanced Language Construction Kit (if it is available in fall/autumn this year).
Oh, right: I'm very impressed by the new MacBook Pro's Retina display. And price.
*$ 2600 for a thing with no hard drive and no optical drive - they must be kidding...*
That's it for now - stay hungry, foolish and tuned.
Freitag, 8. Juni 2012
Italy: The Penultimate Chapter
Well... There's not much to explain the title of my newest blog-post: I'm really going to visit Italy. And if you know that I write a fantasy-themed book, it's not difficult to imagine what it will be about. Anyway, there has not been much progress (neither on paper nor on my Mac) of actual writing, but I have accumulated many ideas in my brain.
You know how quickly your plans can be ruined. I'm no different:
In iWizard, a friend of mine (I mean, a friend of the main character) should have attended the class trip to the Tuscany, but she is unable because of various reasons.
First, I was like *damn crap, the best part is ruined*, but on the second thought it turned out better for her.
What a good thing I get new ideas within a blink of a second...
For Lingua Romanica I have arranged a past tense, two connection words ("and" and "or") and a few words have found their way into the language: religious terms as well as family related words.
And more ideas of sound change are yet to be written down (my language will look like freaking Italian of the Middle Ages...).
And there is one more thing: On June 11, there will be the WWDC Apple Developer Conference. ...What the hell? I won't be up-to-date for 4 more days after the event! Damn...
Anyways, stay hungry, foolish and tuned!
You know how quickly your plans can be ruined. I'm no different:
In iWizard, a friend of mine (I mean, a friend of the main character) should have attended the class trip to the Tuscany, but she is unable because of various reasons.
First, I was like *damn crap, the best part is ruined*, but on the second thought it turned out better for her.
What a good thing I get new ideas within a blink of a second...
For Lingua Romanica I have arranged a past tense, two connection words ("and" and "or") and a few words have found their way into the language: religious terms as well as family related words.
And more ideas of sound change are yet to be written down (my language will look like freaking Italian of the Middle Ages...).
And there is one more thing: On June 11, there will be the WWDC Apple Developer Conference. ...What the hell? I won't be up-to-date for 4 more days after the event! Damn...
Anyways, stay hungry, foolish and tuned!
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