Aspies For Freedom

My recent small obsession is with Bengal Tigers. "Panthera tigris tigris" to be exact, hence it is the scientific name . They live mainly in India and Bangladesh, and they can live in a variety of habitats (I think rain forest and mangroves are the most common habitats). The Bengal tigers are usualy orange on top and white on the bottom with black stripes, but there are a few white bengal tigers that have white fur with black stripes. I just learned today (while visiting wikipedia.com) that there is a rare specimen of bengal tiger called a "Golden Tabby" that has a white fur with golden patches and their stripes are paler than normal.

My older, but still existing, obsession is with Computer War Games (like starcraft, warcraft) strategies. But I don't want to go into to much detail with that, lol.

my interest would be music, but not just a passing interest, i mean a deeply analytical understanding of music, being as i play 12 instruments, do beats, can write for orchestra, produce arrange and sing it tends intimidate people...and sometimes bore them when i start saying *oh a diminished 5th would have gone so well in that musical passage*

i also like synthesis (mainly FM) and retro games

i supplement these kinda narrow geeky interests with a love of clothing and makeup...

hehe!

My Special interest.

Probably Pan-European mythology. Celtic mythology is wild especially the Welsh myths I find it fascinating that of all the cultures that I have studied is that The Celts have a war goddess not a war god, isn't that too nutty. I also love anthropology and studying druidry and meteorology. I was often noted for telling you that the clouds are spiking over 30,000+ alitutes and being a walking barametor

Was it recently? Because no...I like to keep to my own continent right now

I'm lucky because I can pass 2 of mine off as semi-normal.

Football (newcastle united fan!)
Rugby Union
History (mostly medieval era or WW2)

And PC games! More so if they include any of the above

Ooh, "Good Guys, Bad Guys"! I loved that show!

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What about the words 'placeo' and 'placo'? I never was good at latin, but some words do come up now.

My narrow interest is God-talk, as you probably noted allready
I can be really vehement about it.

One of my narrow interests is conlanging (the art of constructing languages) and linguistics in general. I never get around to making much of a conlang of my own -- I just read about others and think about what I would do if I ever got around to it.

I took a look at the autlang project here, and -- there's no nice way to say it -- it's not very well done as conlangs go. It's essentially a cipher for English, containing very little new at all. It's not, as described, logical, because natural languages are often redundant and ambigous and illogical, and this language seems to be based on one particular natural language -- English.

A language has some parts, and sadly the autlang project seems to lack them. Languages have phonologies, which consist of stuff such as:

* Phoneme inventories. Phonemes are roughly the sounds that make a difference in the language. For instance, in English the th-sound in thin, the voiceless dental fricative, is a phoneme. In Norwegian, my native language, it isn't. The sound is not a phoneme, and so Norwegians can have difficulty distinguishing it from other sounds. Many Norwegians pronounce it [f], which it sounds like (to them), or [t], which it reads like.

* Stress.

* Intonation.

* Accent.

* Syllable structure. Why isn't sgfdsfghfdj allowed in English, for instance?

Sadly, autlang lacks anything in the way of this.

Further, a language has morphology, which is concerned with what many would call grammar -- the bits and pieces of words, the morphemes, that have meaning, and how they're combined, and stuff like that. Tenses and cases and clitics and all that jazz. Here, there's a little bit in autlang - mostly mirroring English.

Then there's syntax, where autlang seems to borrow everything implicitly from English.

Then there's semantics and pragmatics and so on. Here again, we find nothing with autlang.

This turned into a critique of autlang in particular, but I'm not really trying to attack anyone. I'm not saying I would have done better myself -- I'm saying I still haven't made the effort, because I don't want the result to be something like autlang: a cipher of another language, such as English.

If you want to make a logical language, have a look at a language constructed for that purpose, such as Lojban. Lojban is based on predicate calculus, which is a logic, and not on someone's vague intuition as to what logic might be.

As you may have gathered, I have a narrow interested that I decided to share. I'm a little embarassed that some real philologist might come by and correct glaring errors in what I've said, but anyway, there you have it.

Roman Abramovich. . .no requests, just demands everything with his cheque book

Hihihihi,thats ok
It makes sence that stan means land.

Does Hindustan mean India?

Oh my...

^ Its exiting,though...

I do as well, suddenly. It is fascinating. Whatever happened to John Lee? Was he allowed to go free after all those attempts? or did they just keep trying to hang him?