Descriptions for each part of a year in the City of Red and Blue Gables. Lyöti, the young scribe of Tönolye and Notun na Nyahe, keeps the household book of her aunt Nadhi’s house and writes down what she sees in the market, in the wine shop by the bridge, in the Lane of DyersContinue reading “Lyeyo, A Year in the City”
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Classical Khélai grammar
Lexicon: https://snapshotsofthelabyrinth.photo.blog/2026/11/09/classical-khelai-lexicon/ This text is based on Yo na lyafüru, a learning grammar of Classical Khélai (English name: High Florestican), the classical language of Némorath. Most of its examples are about everyday life in the City of Red and Blue Gables and the country around it: the market, the canals, the households of the clans,Continue reading “Classical Khélai grammar”
Nözibevo, a list of omens in Classical Khélai
Ho karade lin södhethan Nözibevo ẅeshi lyeyon le.The priests of the six clans are said to have written the Sign-Book over many years. Loyi nözibede melyo, nöbu na söẅewösre thiatt so le.Each omen has its name, its sign and its judgment. Rulbede lablörlordhülo na fösite, Matrilineal law Kara, anyeshölyu na melyo pireusht sözhewin ve pölyinContinue reading “Nözibevo, a list of omens in Classical Khélai”
Pleune, the Last Gate at Esuosi
After the capital had fallen, Pleune remained standing beside the Esuosi marsh. The voices in this poem belong to Saẅi, a scribe of a maternal house, and to reports repeated after the siege. One account says that the people who escaped left the world altogether. I. The two waters B01 Esuosi le, no lowiatt rokgeContinue reading “Pleune, the Last Gate at Esuosi”
Classical Khélai Lexicon
Form Meaning Part of speech Class nay I, me pronoun — nayan we, us pronoun — du you pronoun — dun you (plural) pronoun — sey he, she, they (singular animate) pronoun animate seyan they (animate) pronoun animate so it pronoun inanimate son they (inanimate) pronoun inanimate hal who interrogative — mush what interrogative —Continue reading “Classical Khélai Lexicon”
Translation: বুদ্ধু ভুতুম
The complete classic fairytale in verse (with a few prose interludes including at the beginning). It’s thematically like The Ugly Duckling, but with a grand adventure. আয় রে আমার নাতি-পুতি, আমি তোদের সেই আদিকালের ঠাকুরমা।aj re amar nat̪i-put̪i, ami t̪od̪er ʃei ad̪:i-kaler ʈʰakurmaGather around, grandkids, I am your ancient grandma. আমার এই ঝুলি ভরা কতContinue reading “Translation: বুদ্ধু ভুতুম”
Divinity as Care
Draft 1: Disconnected in places. My objection to religions, as they are practiced, is that they involve establishing an irrational relationship of subordination to a deity or to a priest or master. (Religious art does not fall under this objection, because it does not usually require a serious commitment to subordination.) The objection rests onContinue reading “Divinity as Care”
Materialist Economics: Modeling My Own Claims
Draft 2: Added some features. Over the past year this blog has argued for a materialist political economy. The argument has three layers, and each one rests on the one before it. Physical. Labor value is conserved when goods are exchanged. That one fact is supposed to make prices follow values and split the populationContinue reading “Materialist Economics: Modeling My Own Claims”
A Semilattice Characterization of Convergent Local Self-Configuration
Draft 3: Changes Draft 2 on the status of the identity element, the CRDT comparison, the constant-operation example and one interpretation of the Telic Principle. Draft 2: Corrects Draft 1 on the scope of the conclusion and the constant-operation example. Slightly fuller explanations. Draft 1: Hopefully gets the basic idea across. The Cognitive-Theoretic Model ofContinue reading “A Semilattice Characterization of Convergent Local Self-Configuration”
Translation: হলুদ গাঁদার ফুল দে এনে দে
Folk song by Salil Chowdhury. হলুদ গাঁদার ফুল দে এনে দে,Bring in yellow marigolds সাতনরী হার কানে ঝুমকোলতাSeven-chain necklace, floral pendant রূপকুমারী মেয়ে মান করেছেThe pretty maiden has taken offence বাঁধবে না চুল সে বাঁধবে না রে ॥She won’t bind her hair, no she won’t. আজ আকাশে, আকাশ কন্যা বাদল মেলেছে,Today in the skies, theContinue reading “Translation: হলুদ গাঁদার ফুল দে এনে দে”
