Childhood's End

The Star Beast

Tu, Vos

Interlingua is like French, Spanish, Portuguese, and the like because there are the familiar-formal, young-old, and singular-plural distinctions embedded in its "tu versus vos" pronoun dichotomy for the English counterparts of you.  Interlingua preserves the naturalness from Latino languages.

Triple Détente

Niven's Ringworld

Like Medicine

An Asian stranger has hinted that Esperanto words are like good medicine.

My English from Star Trek

I suppose I have learnt a lot of good English from all the Star Trek shows.  There are a lot of good samples there.

Artist's View of Terraformed Mars

Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy

Le cycle de fondation

My English

Foreigners think my English looks British.  It isn't really.  I've my own style.  I learnt American English in grade school in the Philippines, but later in Canada, I learnt Canadian English.  I've read many sci-fi and fantasy books, written by British authors, so those journeys affect my writing style.  Also, I've read many Esperanto, Spanish, and French books, as well as Japanese, so there are influences from those luxurious languages.

Big Wars and Little

Whilst there are now ongoing "little wars" around the world, there seems to be minimal chance of a "big war."  With international highspeed communications, the 2010's aren't like the 1940's.

World Population

Within this century, some estimates are that the world population will plateau, then start to dip, later.  The more industrialization and higher education spread, the less children people want to have.

Language a Drug

Languages are like drugs.  Some are bad and some are good.  I won't tell you which is which.

K-P-C-O-F-G-S

"Acronym used to remember the taxonomic groupings of individual organisms in biology."

Keep = Kingdom 
Pond = Phylum 
Clean = Class 
Or = Order 
Froggy = Family 
Gets = Genus 
Sick = species

Long Life Study

Studying Japanese makes my life seem longer.  Esperanto has a similar effect on me.

MOM and MAVEN

India's space agency ISRO has their Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) aka Mangalyaan now in orbit around Mars, as it takes pictures.  This spacecraft is contemporaneous with American NASA's MAVEN, also now orbiting Mars.

Non-youth

Strangers have been expressing their non-youth for several years now.  What should people do about it?

Non-brown English Culture

People forget I'm living in an English country.  It's not brown, here.

Propagandists and Life

The propagandists should take account of their own actions.  They're promoting the ideas of poverty and misery.  They don't have the French joie de vivre.  They don't have the Greek kefi.  When will they learn?

Anti-Woman

The propagandists are still anti-woman.  They think women are not better than men.

Future Vision

Many people just don't look to the future, perhaps because they think it'll be merely dismal.

Space Not Just Financial

Setting human feet on Mars isn't just a financial problem; it's significantly a technical problem.

Chinese Lunar Exploration Program

The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program is a series of projects to explore the moon.  It's ongoing.  Like Russians, Chinese want to see their people on the moon.  Luna is the priority.  Americans look to Mars.

Kanji

After your university years, learning more Kanji becomes like a trap because there are just too many of them, and you should have learned them in childhood.  A Kanji dictionary is like a junkyard, as there are many fun vintage things in it, nevertheless.

Capitalism

If people stick with Capitalism, we'll have to tolerate the rollercoaster ride that goes with the central casinos.

JUICE

Europe's space agency ESA is investing hundreds of millions of euros on JUICE, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer.

Luna and Mars

The Russian space agency Roscosmos wants to see their people in habitats on the moon.  Good news!  American NASA turns to Mars, which the Japanese have codenamed Planet-B.

Poor Earth

The Earth is just a poor planet.

Global Slowdown

The Asian Slowdown looks like it's turning into a Global Slowdown.  Rich countries are running out of money for outer space.

Unnumbered Wealth

Western wealth indices may not truly reflect wealth in non-Western countries, as some features of lifestyle cannot be measured numerically, especially in a Western way.

Bubble Economies

When Japan's Bubble burst a few decades ago, Japan was already a mature, developed society, but lately, when China's Bubble has burst, China is still an immature, developing society.  There's a difference.  Some overseas Chinese expect many mainlanders will want to leave the homeland.

Nineists and Elevenists

Nineists promote the longevity of constructivism, whilst Elevenists revel in destructivism.

Zeroists and Tenists

The Zeroists cherish the wordless Void of Everything, whilst the Tenists have laws and rules to guide their life.

Oneists and Twoists

Oneists believe in the solitude and unity of their deity, whilst Twoists believe in Nature's dualities of light-dark, male-female, et cetera.

Sixists and Eightists

Sixists ponder about the paradox of learning and ignorance, and they believe the microcosm reflects the macrocosm, whilst Eightists rejoice in the art and architecture of their ornate places of worship.

Threeists and Sevenists

Threeists are theocentric, believing in a god or gods, whilst Sevenists believe in Nature's many spirits.

Ancientness

We do not feel much history here in Lulu Island, as Western Canada isn't as old as Eastern Canada.  However, if we look at the Amerindian heritage, then we sense real ancientness.

Fourists and Fiveists

The Fourists think the universe is an illusion, a phantasm, whilst the Fiveists think the universe has real substantiality.

Gliding Craft

In the gardens in the Philippines and the misty horizontal freezers in Canada, I used to imagine, as a kid, a gliding craft.  I swooped with my hand or a paper plane.

Sexism

It's easy to fall into the trap of sexism, such as being anti-woman.  But we should be more aware.  The clitoris is just a small rendition of the penis.  Some men behave like women.  The acceptance of a bit of femininity by men may be healthy.  Every person has both masculine and feminine aspects.  The postmodern person isn't limited to the birth gender.

Bell Curve Intelligence

All the races follow the Bell Curve natural distribution of intelligence.  There are smart and dumb people, both.

Technological Retrogression Unlikely

Technological retrogression is unlikely in the future, in my opinion.  As I believe there is intervention, a big war would not transpire that would incur such fate.

Blackout

An extremely long blackout engulfed Lulu Island and other parts of Metro Vancouver yesterday.  What an ordeal it was!  Hearsay told of power lines broken by strong winds.

Language Affects Personality

Your language affects your personality.

Like Philip Tan

The Chinese seem just like Philip Tan in my high school days, as they're more concerned about work and are not too affectionate as a people.  They're not like the Japanese, Hispanics, or French.  I think the Chinese here on Lulu Island show primitive thoughts, and none of them has exhibited the intelligence of my Yugoslav ufologist friend Brian Tepsa.  Don Chan, a longtime friend from HK, is an intelligent sci-fi buff, but I think he's not pure Chinese.  Sigh!

Esperanto and Japanese

Although I involve myself always with numerous other languages on TV, in the Web, in books, etc., I put my attention these days in learning more Esperanto and Japanese by browsing dictionaries, especially.

Sexless Crying

You see people who look like they're always crying.  They evade sexual activity.  They don't masturbate or copulate.

Religions Just Fantasies

Religions are human inventions, just fantasies.

World Unimportant

If you'd study cosmology, you'd feel the world is not really important, the Earth being one of many specks in the cosmos.

Farflung English

When I write English, I don't think of England.  For Filipinos, unlike those British colonies, English comes from the USA.  But nowadays, English may have no more nationality.  In ancient times, the origin of English was not just from England, as parts of its vocabulary came from Germanic tribes in Europe, whilst most other parts Latinate.  English is classified as a Germanic language, as you can note that the German "Du bist ein junger Mann" is like "Thou art a young man."

In these postmodern times, we can detach the nationality from a language.

Religious Sex

My friend KB is rather strange, but is quite intelligent.  He's read a whole ton of books about different religions.  He thinks there should be sex involved in your god.  He might even have sex with his god.  After his thorough religious research, he's picked Hinduism as his very favourite, but his background, being Filipino-Canadian, is Roman Catholic.

Orange Tongue

I've been wanting to learn an Indochinese language, like Vietnamese and Thai, for many years now.  Thai alphasyllabic writing is difficult to remember, and I think some Kanji are easier to remember for me. Vietnamese uses a charming rendition of the Roman alphabet, loaded with accents.  It's my Orange Fantasy.  Hurray!

Future

The past is full of scars and is dirty, so we must look to the future.

Sun Closer Up

Candied Orange Peel

Nata de Coco

Buko Pandan Salad

Terraforming

Terraforming involves the transformation of the atmosphere and surface of a whole planet to make it habitable for humans outdoors.  The graphic shows the terraforming of Mars, the fourth planet from our Sun.

Paraterraforming

Paraterraforming involves habitable enclosures on a planet or moon with a hostile environment.

Balut

Balut is a Philippine delicacy of boiled duck embryo in its shell.

Bagoong

Bagoong is a Philippine condiment made of fermented fish or krill, and salt.

Dioscorea alata

This purple plant is Dioscorea alata, which is ube in the Philippines and beniimo in Japan.  In English, the name seems undecided:  winged yam, purple yam, water yam, etc.

Nonexhaustive Language List

eng English 5 · tgl Tagalog 5 · epo Esperanto 4 · jbo Lojban 3 · spa Spanish 3 · fra French 3 · jpn Japanese 3 · ina Interlingua 3 · por Portuguese 3 · ita Italian 3 · cat Catalan 2 · deu German 2 · haw Hawaiian 2 · nah Nahuatl 2 · cmn Chinese 2 · yue Cantonese 2 · ind Indonesian 2 · lfn Lingua Franca Nova 2 · hat Haitian Creole 1 · cbk Chavacano 1 · hin Hindi 1 · pan Punjabi 1 · fin Finnish 1 · nld Dutch 1 · ron Romanian 1 · yor Yoruba 1 · vie Vietnamese 1 · tur Turkish 1 · bod Tibetan 1 · pol Polish 1 · nan Min Nan Chinese 1 · grn Guarani 1 · pes Persian 1 · cym Welsh 1 · gle Irish 1 · grc Ancient Greek 1 · sjn Sindarin 1 · ang Old English 1 · eus Basque 1 · que Quechua 1 · rus Russian 1 · ell Greek 1 · tha Thai 1 · ara Arabic 1 · kor Korean 1 · heb Hebrew 1 · swe Swedish 1 · lat Latin 1· qya Quenya 1 · tlh Klingon 1 · san Sanskrit 1 · swh Swahili 1 · tok Toki Pona 1 · pli Pali 1 · hai Haida 1 · iku Inuktitut 1 · egy Egyptian 1 · yua Yucatec Maya 1 · tah Tahitian 1 · smo Samoan 1 · mlg Malagasy 1 · ilo Ilokano 1 · ceb Cebuano 1 · ban Balinese 1 · fij Fijian 1 · tpi Tok Pisin 1 · srp Serbian 1 · hun Hungarian 1 · ces Czech 1 · vol Volapük 1 · nys Nyungar 1 · cre Cree 1 · lao Lao 1 · khm Khmer 1 · tet Tetun 1 · jaa Jarawara 1 · arp Arapaho 1 · akk Akkadian 1 · zul Zulu 1 · hau Hausa 1 · xho Xhosa 1 · dan Danish 1 · isl Icelandic 1 · nor Norwegian 1 · lhu Lahu 1 · ahk Akha 1 · lis Lisu 1 · hnj Mong 1 · ium Mien 1 · mri Maori 1 · ton Tonga 1 · tam Tamil 1 · mya Burmese 1 · mon Mongolian 1 · tli Tlingit 1 · ynm Yolngu 1 · blc Bella Coola 1 · nuk Nootka 1 · oji Ojibwe 1 · jqr Jaqaru 1 · wpb Warlpiri 1 · hur Halkomelem 1 · qld Modern Murri 1 · lut Lushootseed 1 · spo Spokan 1 · gla Scottish Gaelic 1 · yid Yiddish 1 · lad Ladino 1 · poo Central Pomo 1 · hix Hixkaryana 1 · zbl Blissymbolics 1 · mlt Maltese 1 · kea Kriolu 1

This list is nonexhaustive, 113 languages in which I have at least an inkling, from 1 as beginner to 5 as fluent or native.

Linguaphile:  I have browsed many, many documents about various languages from Arabic to Volapük to Zulu.  I am a beginner in over a hundred languages.  (I read phrasebooks like other people read newspapers.)  I know that C‑3PO can do better!  He he!  The protocol droid says, "I am fluent in over six million forms of communication..."  Ego es un hobbyista de Interlingua, Esperanto, e Lojban. Homines que ha un passion pro le spatio externe me place.

Kumquats

They're kumquats.

Purple Norway Maple

Acer platanoides (Crimson King Maple)

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