The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages

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The third part of the book gives information on other languages in more detail, including non-Indo-European and constructed languages and leads into a discussion on language planning and a “true Interlingua” that would be “a passport to a wider international culture.” The last paragraph is still relevant today, though written during WWII. Because these non-standard spellings remain similar overall, they are A2 on the Loom. Arguably such differences can sometimes signify something about the writer, which may in turn modify the meaning of the message itself, and its position on the Loom.

Datu (Sultan)/ datu (rich) is a (likely metonymic) homonymic capitonym. Different sound, Same sign, Different meaning Yoga (योग) can be read as joga in Hindi and would still mean the same (it is common to read the sound ‘ya’ as ‘ja’ in different parts of India). Let’s first illustrate the game more fully using English, taking a closer look at each category in turn, before turning to a few other languages.LANGUAGE implies more than learning to signal like a firefly or to talk like a parrot. It means more than the unique combination which we call human speech. So of the four categories requiring variation between spelling and pronunciation, two are empty as far as this speaker is concerned, one contains only homophonic capitonyms, and another requires omission of accentual marks from the written word (as is often the case in written Bisayan) to qualify strictly as heterophonic homographs. Same sound, Same sign, Different meaning All 8 combinations of identities and differences in sound, sign and meaning represented on a 2x2x2 cubic structure Danes love punning and wordplay (ordspil), and there are many opportunities for it in Danish. I haven’t delved into Danish etymology, and have just tried to be sensitive to semantic similarity, to find in this first category some words of possibly related meaning: blad (leaf, magazine), kort (map, card), fuld (full, drunk), have (garden, oceans), regning (arithmetic, bill). Loan words, regional variations, and differences in vocabulary between scientific/formal and informal registers, give rise to different words referring to exactly the same referent (e.g. the plant Verbascum is also widely known as mullein, and many other folk names). (9)

Between them, the community could easily suggest several examples of homonyms where one word serves different purposes: The spoken language of a speech community is continually changing. Where uniformity exists, local dialects crop up. My source’s mother tongue is known as Damara or Nama, formally also known as Khoekhoegowab, a member of the Khoe language group, an important non-Bantu language group in Southern Africa. She is a literate and multilingual speaker of both English and Damara. What I also love about Bodmer’s work is the sense of joy he tries to convey, the idea that languages are a wonderful puzzle worth solving. When I first read the book many years ago I was inspired by it, driven to master languages the way Bodmer suggested, and I still use many of the ideas in the book as a guide towards my own continuing education in languages and cultures of the world. It’s exhilarating to read, even today, seven decades later, the thoughts of a brilliant mind on the necessity and joy of learning language, and how this goal can best be achieved. Solid state physics Quantum theory Chemical bonds SCIENCE Physics Condensed Matter Física do estado sólido Mecânica quânticaThe compound pronounced yìyì can represent 意义 (‘sense; meaning; significance’), 异议 (‘objection; dissent’), or 意译 (‘meaning-based translation’). Kost pronounced with a short vowel means diet, and broom with a long vowel. Legende pronounced ‘lie-ener’ means playing, and pronounced ‘legender’ with a hard g means legend. Different sound, Different sign, Same meaning To the extent that these substitutions are taken to have the same meaning, they are A3 on the Loom.

Saru (સારું, pronounced saa — ru (rhymes with Sue)) can be read as Saru or Haru and both mean ‘good’ (it is common to read the sound ‘sa’ as ‘ha’ without changing the meaning). Different sound, different sign, same meaning: English is a difficult language. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though. Anonymous meme It also includes how a man can communicate across continents and down the ages through the impersonal and permanent record which we call writing. The book contains essays about the Latin and Greek origins of European words. He discusses Romance and Germanic languages. He describes trends in the syntax and semantics of the language families.N|uu (spelt gǃú on wikipedia, which I consulted afterwards) means ‘water’ and ‘stomach’ (according to my source) As I said above, Part II is a treasure trove. Bodmer distills everything a student needs to know about sound correspondences, etc. to make connections across the outlined languages and accelerate learning. The only annoyance is that the huge tables in Part IV aren't available online somewhere as spreadsheets (the book was written in the '40s) so one could import them into a spaced repetition system like Anki for efficient learning. I'm working on typing these out for my own purposes, but this will take awhile.