Larry Hammer (
larryhammer) wrote2017-05-23 08:21 am
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"My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three"
Three links:
Multiday lightning storms seen from space.
Timelapse of the Grand Canyon with clouds, as in filling it. (via)
The greening of Antarctica is happening. Now. (via all over)
---L.
Subject quote from Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.
Multiday lightning storms seen from space.
Timelapse of the Grand Canyon with clouds, as in filling it. (via)
The greening of Antarctica is happening. Now. (via all over)
---L.
Subject quote from Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.
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I keep thinking that's a mnemonic.
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That is a pretty great mnemonic. What's it for?
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The order of Japanese kana -- or rather, of the initial consonants. (It amuses me to no end that this ordering is ultimately inherited from Sanskrit. Buddhist-powered diffusion for the win.)
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ETA2 Korean hangeul dictionaries use a somewhat different order, but the first few are the same. Makes sense given etiology.
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Without the tense ones, ㄱㄴㄷㄹㅁㅂㅅㅇㅈㅊㅋㅌㅍㅎ, which comes to this in kiddie form: ga na da la ma ba sa [ng] ja cha ka ta pa ha. The last five are the aspirates, most with a non-aspirate sib earlier in the sequence; the tense ones accompany their normal sibs. Thus the full set is ㄱㄲㄴㄷㄸㄹㅁㅂㅃㅅㅆㅇㅈㅉㅊㅋㅌㅍㅎ
Footnotes:
1. There used to be two graphs that looked like ㅇ. Now there is one. The surviving one is syllable-final only: 방 is b-a-ng, a room.
2. The letters have sort of reduplicative names that I tend to forget--ㅁ is mieum (two syllables, miŭm)--but "a" is the first vowel and ga na da is how little kids learn to read.
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Kana, the voiced consonants, which are written as their unvoiced counterpart with a diacritic mark,* get folded into counterparts for ordering purposes (these being k/g, s/z, t/d, h/b/p).
* Because Classical Japanese, when kana were developed, didn't distinguish the sounds.
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Exactly! It's such a vivid sentence and yet it feels as though it means something else.
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