Pronoun Icons (and notes on the 1-1000 peg system)

The number system is called the "Major System"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system

Competition
http://www.memoriad.com/

Less common languages:
http://www.openlanguages.net/

I = icepick
We = (potter's) wheel

You boy = boiler
You girl = Grill
You Couple = Cable (like a cable car, or a zip line)
You girls = Gills
You boys = Bus

He = (boot) heel
She = Sheet
They two men = Tomb (stone)
They two woman = Tow (truck)
They Gentlemen = Gingerbread Man
They Ladies = Ladles

Lori's Measure Notes

The "Practice" of various World Religions

As I was running today, I was thinking about the focus of various world religions and what there actual "practice" rather than cosmology or belief system was centered on.  Thinking of Max Weber's landmark sociological study of Protestantism for example, in "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," it seems apparent that the core focus of the practice of Protestantism is Mastery, which has mostly expressed through market capitalism since the inception of this branch of Christianity.  Continuing along this strain of thought I was musing that the following might be the core elements of practice in the various major religious movement of the world:

1) Protestantism: Mastery (The efforts of the individual being of paramount importance.)

2) Catholicism: Service (Doing your duty in attendance, giving to charity, vows of poverty, serving the poor.)

3) Judaism: Tribalism (Taking care of your brethren, supporting the homeland.)

4) Sunni Islam: Detachment (through the practice of prayer and fasting to detach from temporarily and materialism.)

5) Shia Islam: Support of Hierarchy (through annual self punishment for not protecting ancient leaders as a group, and through stringent familial and societal hierarchy reinforcement.)

6) Sufi Islam: Serenity (Through the exercise of perceptual discipline and introspective exercises.)

7) Hinduism: Acceptance? (Through knowing and behaving according to your karmic place and time?)

8) Buddhism: Harmlessness? (Through avoiding causes of pain or injury effecting oneself or others?)

9) Confucianism: Stability (Not rocking the boat anywhere or in anything when at all possible and respecting elders and everything they and society have established?)

10) Baha'ism: Education (Learning and then Teaching, viewed as the means towards world peace and unity)

Arabic Perfect and Imperfect Verb Tenses

Two words: Arising and Arisen.  Think daily cycle of the sun rising and setting.  Time is not linear in Arabic, and it is not a progressive staircase whatsoever at all.  Time is cycle.  Hence the paradigm latent in the words arising and arisen is helpful for understanding these tenses.

Great Works in Arabic -- http://www.wilbourhall.org/index.html#AR

Arabic	al-Biruni: Chronology of Ancient Nations البيروني‎	al-Farabi : On the Virtuous City الفارابي	al-Khazini:The Zij as-Sanjari الخزيني‎	al-Khwarizmi:The Algebraالخوارزمي
al-Nairizi: Commentary on Euclid's Elementsالنريزى	Thabit ibn Qurra: Book V of the Conic Sections of Apollonius ثابت بن قرّة	al-Kindī: Several Short Philosophical Works (Latin) الكندي‎	Omar Khayyam: The Algebra of Omar Khayyam	Abu Mashar: Intrductionum in Astronomias
Ibn al-Nadim Fihrist الكتاب الفهرست	AlkabitiusAstronomie Iudiciarie Principia	al-Khwarizmi: Key to the Sciencesالخوارزمي	Abu Uthman al-Dimishqi: Pappus' Commentary on Book X of Euclid

The Mother Load of Arabic Source Documents

http://www.wilbourhall.org/index.html#AR

PDF	Description
VOL I	Wright's Arabic Grammar Vol I Corrected Google Scan
VOL I	Wright's Arabic Grammar Vol I [Million Books Project]
VOL II	Wright's Arabic Grammar Vol II Corrected Google Scan
VOL II	Wright's Arabic Grammar Vol II[Million Books Project]
Wehr	Hans Wehr's Arabic- English Dictionary [Million Books Project]
VOL I & II, VOL II&IV	Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (Arabic to Latin Dictionary) George W. Freytag  (1830-37) [Million Books Project]
Abridgement of the Lexicon Arabico-Latinum	Lexicon Arabico-Latinum ex opere suo maiore in usum Tironum excerptum.(An abridgement of the edition above for the use of students)George W. Freytag (1837)[Google Books]
Van Dyke MS Word	Van Dyke Bible (Arabic). Microsoft Word.
Chrestomathia Arabica	Chrestomathia Arabica. Arabic reader with Latin notes. Kosegarten 1828[Google Books]
Van Dyke PDF	Van Dyke Bible (Arabic). PDF
Concordance	Concordance to the Quran and Van Dyke Bible. (Lists occurrences and morphology of all words in both texts)
	Lexicon
Quran(Latin)	Editio Princeps of the Latin Quran. 1543. Uncorrected.[Google Books]
VOL_I, VOL_II,VOL_III,VOL_IV	One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة‎ Kitāb 'alf layla wa-layla; ) Edited by W.H.McNaughten, Esq. Four Volumes. Arabic. London/Calcutta. 1839-1842. Uncorrected.[Google Books]
VOL_I, VOL_II,VOL_III,VOL_IVVOL_V,VOL_VI,VOL_VII,VOL_VIIIVOL_IX,VOL_X, VOL_XI,VOL_XII	Tausend und Eine Nacht Arabisch Nach einer Handschrift aus Tunis.[One Thousand and One Nights -  Arabic: كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة‎ Kitāb 'alf layla wa-layla; )]Ed. Habicht. German introduction. Arabic Text. 12 volumes. 1825-1838.Uncorrected [Google Books]
VOL_I, VOL_II,VOL_III,VOL_IVVOL_V,VOL_VI,VOL_VII,VOL_VIIIVOL_IX,VOL_X,VOL_XI,VOL_XIIVOL_XIII,	The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night English translation by John Payne. London: 1901. Volumes I-IX: The Thousand Nights and One Night Volumes X-XII: Tales From the Arabic Volumes XIII: Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp [Million Books Project]
Thousand and One Nights: History and Charachter	The Book of a Thousand Nights and One: Its History and Character. John Payne 1884 [Google Books]
Thousand and One Nights (English)	Link to various English translations of the the Thousand and One Nights
Vulgate	Latin Vulgate of St. Jerome
The late G.M. Browne, former professor of Classics at Harvard and of the Classics and Linguistics at the University of Illinois, suggested that a good way for non-Muslims to learn pointed Arabic is by reading the Van Dyke Bible. It is useful to compare the Arabic constructions with those of the Latin Vulgate, hence its inclusion in the above list.

Philippians 2:13, Causality in Semitic Measures? Hebrew/Arabic connection?

God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.


Young's Literal Translation
Philippians 2:13