introductory apologies for butchered French...

French 101

1) je suis (excuse the missing accent marks, if any are grammatically required, it's been a while), means "i am, " in French.

2) eliminate the space between the, "Je" and the, "suis" and you are left with, "Jesuis"

3) eliminate the, "i" (as suggested in the previous blog) and you are left with, "Jesus."

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In the movie Die Hard with a Vengeance, Samuel L. Jackson's character is named Zeus, presumably after the Greek God. If you say, "Hey, Zeus," fast enough it sounds like or Hay-zoos in Spanish,which is how the Spanish-speaking say Jesus.

If you say anything fast enough it can sound like gibberish. too slow its mumbles. as for the former, glosslalia, or speaking in tongues, is the technical name.

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If you look at the modern English alphabet as very crude hieroglyphics, each letter can be assigned a pictorial value.

the lowercase letter, "t" could resemble a stick man.

the lowercase letter, "u" could resemble a cup. the lowercase, "v" and uppercase, "Y" could resemble a stemless snifter and martini glass respectively.

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photographs themselves can be see as more elaborate hieroglyphics, rendered, by any number of interdependent mechanical/technical mechanisms.

"a picture is the tombstone of a moment," or so it has been said. is it because memory lives more richly in our imagination as evoked by dialogue. is it because, the memory is the centralizing point, the frame of reference,  and the flash of the bulb, renders our imaginations less wonder-struck.

my friend from the bookstore, said, technology has removed the fun from not knowing as any answer can be googled in a matter of seconds to the point where he added that an adolescent today has access to more information than the president did twenty years ago.



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seeing the romance languages as intersecting linguistic tributaries and tracing them back to their common/presumed delta (again playing the Western Civilization backwards hop-scotch) left me asking an old friend/neighbor from Santa Ana, to draw the Greek alphabet. though it was five or so years ago, it was fascinating. though the cyber interface will pale in comparison to his notated, hand-written rendering, the alphabet will be googled again to satiate the thirst for memory.

you can also think of words, prefixes, suffixes, letters, etc., that comprise them as having positive/negative value as well.

you can pay attention to the end and beginning letters of any word while dismissing the middle. see what you come up with or vice versa.