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16 years ago
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Yeah, just a journal to push that thing with the Antarctic contest off my front page. This week someone walked into the gallery and dropped $150 for one of my pics! Now that's the kind of boost I needed considering I've sold squat since spring. I'll just link you to the LiveJournal post which also has some really great haiku verses for some of my pics penned by a writer gal-pal o mine. Very flattering, having someone cogitate and ruminate, fulminate and fuminate over one's pictures. Deeper meanings!
http://s633.photobucket.com/albums/.....hoto/2009/Oct/
As for Haiku, it sometimes is difficult for me to grasp the deep meanings and the connotations of the lyrics written in English. I cry over my situation that I was not born as a native English speaker.
I just had a great thought... language is the light that shines on an object. I think a lot about language, and about thinking without speaking. In other words, the thoughts in one's head that are not formed in or with words. Recently I thought of an interesting musical instrument. That thought came into my mind fully formed, no words, there it is. Now I could use words to describe it, but it would be a poor description and you still would never have in your head what I have in mine!
Languages are all different and each has it's strengths and weaknesses. English is very descriptive, there are more words than any other language and it absorbs new ones from other languages, and makes new ones all the time. (we now "google" things for instance). It does have it's weaknesses though. I cried when I heard there was a word in the Japanese language, a single short word that means "The imperfection in a work of art that completes the work and makes it whole." Or something like that, because English cannot say that meaning properly! What an incredibly sophisticated and beautiful idea/thought all summed up in one simple word.
The linguistic conceptions and connotations were one of the subjects that I studied quite a lot when I was in school. A bit of study could not bring me any conclusion to those, but it is a big help for me when I communicate with many people in the world. Musical instruments are quite interesting subject, too. How the sounds function the profound of the people's mind? Putting aside how we like, or do not like, The Pink Floyd probably is one of the rock bands that has been pursuing this subject in music.
It seems to be true that each language has its strong and weak points. Since I am not a native English speaker, I cannot say much about this language although, I sometimes feel that it is very convenient to write something about scientific matters, business, and thesis, but that it is inconvenient to describe something about people's mind. This may come from my lack of the English words in number, and it is just what I think after several years of my self studying.
Well mind you that's an el-cheapo basement apartment, also I live up north in the middle of fields and forests, but they're close to the city too. It's out of the way, isolated, but a good place to live. *sigh* I do miss being within driving distance of all those fun things (cons!) happening in the U.S., but then I also ask myself if I actually want to visit there!
Oh there's lots of bands and people other than Floyd that do that. I like their Syd Barrett years the best, he was my type of fun madman. Heh, how word-sounds affect the mind... "Love you little honey bunny sunny funny morning love you more funny love in the skyline baby, I scream s'cuse me seen you looking good the other evening!" Yep, mad as a hatter! *lol*
It's as you say, English is about precision, concrete labeling, things like that. It's been said recently that some of the east-coast native languages would be the best to deal with the strange world of physics, because nothing is definite and it's all about things in transition. I can't imagine what it will be like when we can actually put on them caps and actually share our thoughts, raw. We are closer to this than anyone can imagine. It WILL happen within our lifetimes. It will be the greatest revolution, evolution, in our history.
Oh there's lots of bands and people other than Floyd that do that. I like their Syd Barrett years the best, he was my type of fun madman. Heh, how word-sounds affect the mind... "Love you little honey bunny sunny funny morning love you more funny love in the skyline baby, I scream s'cuse me seen you looking good the other evening!" Yep, mad as a hatter! *lol*
It's as you say, English is about precision, concrete labeling, things like that. It's been said recently that some of the east-coast native languages would be the best to deal with the strange world of physics, because nothing is definite and it's all about things in transition. I can't imagine what it will be like when we can actually put on them caps and actually share our thoughts, raw. We are closer to this than anyone can imagine. It WILL happen within our lifetimes. It will be the greatest revolution, evolution, in our history.