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Feelingful Teeth
"John's so sensitive!"
"Ouch! My teeth are really sensitive!"
If you (or your teeth) are sensitive, it means they have a lot of feeling. They're really full of feeling. That is, they are feelingful.
"You're more feelingful than your brother"
"He's the most feelingful person I know!"
NOT: feelingfuller, feelingfullest. We don't say "resentfuller" or "beautifullest".
The negative can be formed with un-: unfeelingful. That is, "insensitive".
That's it! A new English word for you formed totally regularly from the tools already available to us.
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Bible-speak #Anglish #PlainEnglish
The early Modern English of the King James Bible, the traditional Bible in English-speaking countries, is rather different to today's English. See Matthew 6:1-2 below in the King James version.
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Now take a look at the same verses in the modern New International text.
'Be careful not to practise your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. 'So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honoured by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
Sometimes, the older version has homeborn words (do alms) whereas the modern version has borrowed words (practise your righteousness). And other times, it's the newer version which uses homeborn words and the older that borrows (Verily but Truly).
None-the-less, the King James version of the Bible, still so familiar to us despite de-Christianisation and "modernisation", gives us many homeborn words to stand in stead of the borrowings; the main upside is that even though many of these older words are no longer (commonly) used, they stay well-known owing to their use in the Bible. These words are, as I put it, "buttressed" by their familiarity as part of scripture. Here are some other homeborn words from the same passage that you may wish to swap into your English, thanks to the Bible.
Swap in: take heed for pay attention; do alms for practise charity; blow/sound your trumpet for announce it loudly; have or get for receive.
What other passages from the Bible can you find where the older text gives us words of English birth?
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Spelling: -o(u)r
One of the most well-known splits between US and UK spelling is the ending –o(u)r found in colour/color, honour/honor, valour/valor and so on. Whatever your opinion of either spelling, it should be noted that the forms are French and Latin and therefore should probably be taken out of Anglish. However, short of getting rid of every single word in the tongue which has this ending, which may not be possible, we need to face the need to make these forms more English. But how should we do this?
Broadly speaking, –our is French whereas –or is Latin. See the history from http://www.etymonline.com below. The English form for this sound in the position is almost always –er, as in teacher. Now, folk might not want to spell words like "colo(u)r" the logical English way, "culler", as this Anglish movement is not primarily about spellings. But spellings are a part of the language. And many words simply cannot be taken out of the speech; even Icelandic and German have many outland borrowings. But there is no reason why the outland spelling should stay. Bear in mind that spellings like "onner" (for "hono(u)r") are attested.
Folk may also complain that –er makes agent nouns (a "teacher" is one who teaches), and so spelling it "culler" might confuse issues with one who culls. But in any case, –er isn't exclusive for agents, unless "butter" is someone who butts. And indeed, "butter" being one who butts is a perfectly legitimate word — none-the-less, context tells us what we mean.
So how's this for an Anglish proposal? Where we cannot get rid of –o(u)r words, change the spelling to –er, particularly where the rest of the word doesn't need changing at all: so maybe maybe not "culler", but definitely "governer".
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http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=-or&allowed_in_frame=0
-orword-forming element making nouns of quality, state, or condition, from Middle English -our, from Old French -our (Modern French -eur), from Latin -orem (nominative -or), a suffix added to past participle verbal stems. Also in some cases from Latin -atorem (nominative -ator).
In U.S., via Noah Webster, -or is nearly universal (but not in glamour, curious, generous), while in Britain -our is used in most cases (but with many exceptions: author, error, senator, ancestor, horror etc.). The -our form predominated after c. 1300, but Mencken reports that the first three folios of Shakespeare's plays used both spellings indiscriminately and with equal frequency; only in the Fourth Folio of 1685 does -our become consistent.
A partial revival of -or on the Latin model took place from 16c. (governour began to lose its -u- 16c. and it was gone by 19c.), and also among phonetic spellers in both England and America (John Wesley wrote that -or was "a fashionable impropriety" in England in 1791).
Webster criticized the habit of deleting -u- in -our words in his first speller ("A Grammatical Institute of the English Language," commonly called the Blue-Black Speller) in 1783. His own deletion of the -u- began with the revision of 1804, and was enshrined in the influential "Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language" (1806), which also established in the U.S. -ic for British -ick and -er for -re, along with many other attempts at reformed spelling which never caught on (such as masheen for machine). His attempt to justify them on the grounds of etymology and the custom of great writers does not hold up.
Fowler notes the British drop the -u- when forming adjectives ending in -orous (humorous) and derivatives in -ation and -ize, in which cases the Latin origin is respected (such as vaporize). When the Americans began to consistently spell it one way, however, the British reflexively hardened their insistence on the other. "The American abolition of -our in such words as honour and favour has probably retarded rather than quickened English progress in the same direction." [Fowler]
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Word of the Week: Eyeblink
As you may have picked up on, I am a lover of Swedish (see here and here). Going through the Duolingo Swedish course is providing me with a lot of delight and inspiration right now. For example, the Time module has reminded me of a few lovely Swedish words.
There's årtionde "decade", lit. 'year-ten', and århundrade "century", lit. 'year-hundred'. There's the particularly lovely årstid "season", lit. 'year's-time'.
But my favourite is ögonblick "moment": literally, 'eyes-blink'.
Notice that all of these Swedish words are what I call "phrase-words": phrases which have been condensed into a word. I propose using such phrase-words more often in English. I consider such formations to be "implied English"; that is, they don't happen to exist in any dictionary, but they are implied by the mechanisms of the language.
The literal English oversetting of the above Swedish words doesn't quite work in English. "Year-ten", "year-hundred", "year's-time", and "eyes-blink" have a distinctly Germanesque smack to them. However, we can make phrase-words of "ten years", "hundred(s of) years", "time of the year", and "blink of an eye" in a style most English. I put forward:
ten-year, hundred-year, year-time, eye-blink (with or without the dashes as one sees fit).
Of course, there is nothing wrong with the phrases "ten years", "time of the year", and so on. And I would definitely advise people to use "In the last ten years", and its ilk, instead of "In the last decade". But when one needs to use a single word to encompass this phrase, as one does from time to time, let's use the impled English phrase-words instead of complex Latinate jargon.
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I've set up a new blog. Don't worry, I haven't given up on this one! It's just that I want to keep this one for Anglish / Germanic English stuff, and put all "other" language stuff in the other blog: The Tungmaker.
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Phobias, Philias, Manias
Three words that I quite like from Englandish are 'phobe', 'phile', and 'maniac'. They're very productive and really succinct. Also, they offer us a useful set of specific medical terms. However, they do come from Greek, and therefore we should try to replace them in Anglish. So let's think about the meaning of these words and what we could therefore replace them with.
A 'phobia' is an irrational fear and/or hatred of any given thing. So 'arachnophobia' is literally the irrational fear and/or hatred of spiders. So how to translate this affix?
We could simply use the word "fear", e.g., "spiderfear". But "fear" doesn't quite capture the meaning of "phobia". For example, maybe your fear of spiders is not irrational but healthy and well-founded, knowing as you do a great deal about their physiology and venomous capacities. How are we to make this distinction between rational and irrational fears? On top of that, "fear" does not by itself contain the "hatred" element that is often extant in the state of phobia.
We could, then, say "hate" or "hatred" (from now on in, when I say "hate" in this context, I am also referring equally to "hatred"). However, the same problems arise. That is, we are not marking this out as an irrational hate, and neither are we indicating the fear aspect of phobias.
So why not put the two together and say "fearhate" or "hatefear"? The problem is that this is longish, and we are still not indicating the key point that what we are dealing with is not a well-founded, reasonable fear, but an irrational, medical one.
We could, given these points, say, "unfoundedfearandorhatred". But this doesn't quite work, although I can't put my finger on why…
Having said all of that, I'll probably end up shocking you now. I don't believe using "fear", as a sort of pseudo-suffix, is inadequate a replacement for 'phobia'. Indeed, I think it is more than up to the job. The reason I think this, despite everything I have just said, is because if you wish to say that you have a fear of a certain thing, whether this fear is objectively well-founded or not, you would not naturally say, for example, "I have spider-fear". You would use one of the following: "I'm scared of spiders", "I've got a fear of spiders", "I'm afraid of spiders", and so on. Thus I feel that using "fear" in this compound-cum-suffix way would not be confusing and, in fact, could clearly be used to indicate a more specific, technical sense; that is, phobia. Why isn't this confusing? Because "fear" isn't used syntactically in this way at the moment, thus such use of it would stand-out and indicate a potentially different meaning to the listener. Therefore, we could readily use "fear" as a kind-of suffix to indicate the specific sense of "phobia".
Given what I've just said, you might want to suggest "-hate" instead of "-fear". But I feel that "fear" works slightly better, meaning-wise. Mainly this is because a phobia may involve hate, but then again it may not, whereas it seems to invariably involve pathological fear.
Thus, for "phobia", "phobe", "phobic", we have "-fear", "-fearer", and "-fearing". Arachnophobia, arachnophobe, arachnophobic: spiderfear, spiderfearer, spiderfearing.
Philias
The form –philia indicates (i) "a tendency towards", such as in "haemophilia", and (ii) "love of or liking for", especially with a sense of "sexual interest in".
Natural self-suggestions are "-love" and "-liking". But these don't quite do it for me. I think we need a more extreme word. We could use the intensive prefix "for-", to make "forliking" or "forlove". Or we could go down a simpler path and use a readymade word: hankering, yearning, lust.
Certainly in the second sense of –philia, I very much like "lust". It can have both sexual and non-sexual connotations, just like –philia, whilst also indicating an element of strong, almost insatiable desire. Thus, we have "childlust" (paedophilia), "frenchlust" (francophilia), and "animallust" (bestiality).
In the first sense of the suffix –philia, that is, 'an inclination towards X', we could use various forms. For example, "haemophilia" is literally a sickness where one cannot stop bleeding. Thus, "bleedingsickness". Other possibilities suggest themselves, such as "bleedsickness", "forbleed(ing)sickness", and "bleedishness". I'm sure you can think of others besides.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines "mania" primarily as, "madness, particularly of a kind characterised by uncontrolled, excited, or aggressive behaviour", and "a personal obsession … excessive enthusiasm … a collective enthusiasm, usually short-lived, a 'craze'". It also lists the specific psychological meaning referring to a particular aspect of bipolar mood disorder.
I believe that madness or mindsickness are good ways of translating the mental illness type of "mania", whilst craze is a good way to treat the merely excessive though not quite mentally unsound type of "mania". I think this because whilst "craze" doesn't needfully express mental derangement, it can, whereas "mad" and "mindsick" needfully betoken a mental unsoundness. Alternatively, we could use craze for both, because it does, like "mania", have a shade of aggressiveness and also treads the line between merely the excessive and mental illness.
Wordlist
So, for your delight and quick perusal, I have prepared a list of words set over into Anglish. Enjoy!
NOTE: I haven't supplied a full list of derivatives (e.g. "acrophobe" and "acrophobic" alongside "acrophobia"), as I think the derived forms are obvious; I have, instead, listed the forms that I reckon will be most useful.
Acrophobia Heightsfear
Agoraphobia Openspacefear
Anglophile Englishluster
Anglophobe Englishfearer
Arachnophobia Spiderfear
Francophobe Frenchfearer
Homophobia Gayfear
Kleptomania Theftlust, Theftmadness
Necrophilia Deathlust (Note: "necrophilia" does not solely mean a sexual desire for corpses, as it is often taken to be, it also includes a non-sexual but psychologically disturbed fascination with them)
Nymphomania Sexlust, Sexmadness, Overlust
Paedophile Childluster
Paedophilia Childlust
Paedophilic Childlusting
Pyromania Firemadness, Firelust, Firecraziness
Xenophobia Outland(er)fear
Xenophobic Outland(er)fearing
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In the House of Sickness and Health
In this post I'm going to talk a little about words relating to sickness and good health. I will also speak about the word "house" and its uses in this topic area.
"House" is a pretty handy word. It doesn't just mean "place where you live". It can also mean, amongst other things, "a building associated with or used for a specified activity, purpose, or occupation". In this way, it often (in effect) functions akin to Latinate –ary and is very productive:
courthouse, dosshouse, guesthouse, lighthouse, workhouse, warehouse, slaughterhouse.
However, it seems to be shied away from these days, with formations in –house often being replaced. For example, the above mentioned "slaughterhouse" is often rendered "abattoir". [NOTE 1] Likewise, what were known in the nineteenth century as "deadhouses" are now euphemistically called "mortuaries".
Now, I understand the sensitivity to death which gives rise to euphemistic formations such as "mortuary" (and "casket", "deceased", "abattoir", and so on). And Anglish must also provide euphemisms, as euphemisms are a legitimate and important part of language. However, the problem is that "mortuary" has taken over and is no longer even euphemistic. I'd rather call a "spade" a "spade" and just say "deadhouse", but if we feel the need to use a euphemism we could easily form them on English roots. Perhaps "gonehouse", "lefthouse", "Hereafter's waiting room"; it isn't difficult to think of potential alternatives.
Let's move on now from death to sickness. Firstly, to the phrase "mental illness". "Mental", of course, is Latin, and therefore no good for Anglish. So what can we call it? Let's start by not trying to simplistically make a morpheme-by-morpheme translation of this phrase; let's instead think about what the phrase "mental illness" actually means. Well, it is sickness of the mind, not the body. So it seems to me that "mental illness" can easily be glossed as "mind-sickness". "Mentally ill" would therefore be "mind-sick".
What is the name of the place where we often put mentally ill people? In Englandish we call it a "mental asylum" – more Latin! – but in Anglish we can already say "madhouse". The problem is that "madhouse" seems somewhat pejorative (just as "whorehouse" seems to be; "brothel" being the "respectable" word [NOTE 2]). I personally have suffered mental health issues, and I have no qualms using the word "mad" of my own predicament; it was (is) my way of using humour to brush off the situation ('Oh, I'm quite mad, don't you know(!)'). But I appreciate that not everyone would want to handle their experience of mental illness in the same way. So let's try to think of another word to replace "mental asylum". Well, why not let's, instead of saying "mad", use what we have already come up with – mindsick – and use "house" as we have been (that is, "a building associated with a specific activity, purpose, or occupation"): thus, a mental asylum is a "mindsickhouse".
Now, sicknesses of the mind are one thing, and another thing is sicknesses of the body. So where should these bodily sick people go? Well, a "sickhouse", no? Or, as Englandish would have it, a "hospital".
Incidentally, "sickhouse" is the word used in Swedish (sjukhus from sjuk 'sick' + hus 'house' [NOTE 3])
One person who tends to you in sickhouses is the doctor. The word "doctor" entered our language around 1300, and by the late 14th century had come to mean "medical professional". It essentially ousted our own word, "leech", which has also stuck around in Swedish to the present day as läkare. I must confess that I'm so addled with Old and Middle English, so full of ye-diddly-de and hast thou-speak, that I'm not sure if "leech" is too far gone from our language so as to be unrehabilitatable. It does seem to have had some serious use until the nineteenth century, and continues even now as a jocular form amongst somewhat bookish types. However, "doctor" is, I would say, pretty well understood, and I'd reckon that 99 per cent of people on the street would never have heard of "leech" with the doctorly meaning.
The word for "doctor" is important as it leads us onto terms for other health professionals. For example, what do we call "dentists"? In Swedish the one says tandläkare, "toothleech". But, as I say, I feel that leech is probably too far gone, and "doctor" is now so normal a word that we might be best to say "toothdoctor". What about other types of medical professional, the podiatrists, psychiatrists, and even vetinarians? We should really think about these groups of professionals as a whole instead up coming up with individual terms piecemeal, but it is easy enough to see how plain English alternatives could be found; for example, footdoctor, minddoctor, and animaldoctor.
But let's leave the names of professions for a separate posting, and instead move back to houses.
Spiritual Maladies
Sickness of the mind? Check. Sickness of the body? Check. Sickness of the soul?
The word "house", unqualified and plain, can actually mean "religious building, house of God". However, in this meaning it is usually put in the phrase "house of god". The natural compound noun is, therefore, "godhouse" or "godshouse". This is a good example of where using English roots can give us a neat word that we do not have an equivalent for in Englandish. What term do we have that covers churches, cathedrals, mosques, masjids, temples, and so on, if not "house of god"? Thus, godhouse.
General Health, Diet
Moving away from ailments and on to aspects of life which may or may not have health implications, I want to list some more formations using "house".
Alongside "slaughterhouse" and "deadhouse" (as being "house" words ousted from English) are "bakehouse" and "deyhouse" which have now completely been replaced by "bakery" and "dairy". The ending -(e)ry is from French. I find "bakehouse" quite a strong and admirably plain word; it is, if nothing else, a house of baking. But what is a "dey"? You might as well ask what a "dairy" is (which uses the same root, "dey", but with a minor spelling change from <y> to <i>).
A "dey" is a female servant or maid (particularly one working in dairy), and the word is related to "dough". The Oxford English Dictionary says "dey" is still around in "parts of Scotland" (how delightfully vague!) But anyway, the point is that bakehouse and deyhouse are good, plain, Anglish alternatives to current "bakery" and "dairy".
There are several other extant -house words which have some bearing on our diet:
teahouse, coffeehouse, curryhouse.
Interestingly, there are a profusion of words for "place where primarily coffee is consumed", and I am going to go off on a slight tangent now to discuss them. These words are: coffeehouse, coffee shop, café, caff/caffie and its synonym "greasy spoon (café/caff/caffie)". The difference in meaning between these words is quite interesting and I believe not fully settled – an opportunity to set them in an Anglish mould, perhaps(!)
In my area (working classWest London), a caff/caffie, known as a "greasy spoon" by some, is the "traditional" English café with tea, breakfast, and so on, primarily focusing on food. "Café" refers more to a coffee house of some good quality (or supposed good quality); say, café rouge. And a "coffee shop" is a populist coffee drinking house which is not primarily for food (as a caff is), such as Costa, Nero, or Starbucks. All three types (caffs, cafés, and coffee shops) collectively are known as "coffee houses".
Now, like I say, this is not a settled or universal usage, but it is an understanding of the terms which seems to extend beyond my own bedroom rooms and close friends, at least. In any case, it is three quite different, albeit closely related, types of establishment. So how we would render these words (concepts) into Anglish? Well caffs are already known as "greasy spoons", which is pure English; Starbucks et al are already "coffee shops", the latter word being English and the former being the word borrowed by a great deal of languages; and café could remain "café" or else become "European coffee shop"; and "coffee house", the overterm for all three things, could remain as it is.
House is a useful pseudo-suffix whose use can be extended beyond just places relating to sickness and health. For example, "library" could easily be rendered "bookhouse", "restaurant" could be "foodhouse", and many other words besides are already attested: brewhouse (brewery), playhouse (theatre), filmhouse (cinema), distilling-house (distillery), eating-house (restaurant), bath-house, tap-house, and so on.
Often, a subtly different word can be made by using "shop" versus "house" where this is appropriate (e.g. coffeeshop vs. coffeehouse), or by using "room" (e.g. bookroom vs. bookhouse, where the latter is perhaps a public library houses in a building, whereas the former is a private or subscription-only library based in a room or a small number of rooms).
I see no real need for -ery or -eria (pizzeria, cafeteria, and so on) when we have words such as "house", "shop", and "room" to take their stead.
Bryan Parry
abattoir slaughterhouse
bakery bakehouse
brewery brewhouse
cafe coffee shop; coffeehouse; greasy spoon
cinema filmhouse
dairy deyhouse
dentist toothdoctor, toothleech
distillery distilling-house
doctor leech
–eria –house
–ery –house
hospital sickhouse
library bookhouse, bookroom
mental asylum mindsickhouse
mentally ill mind-sick
mental illness mind-sickness
mortuary deadhouse
prostitute whore; (euph.) working girl, working man
restaurant foodhouse, eating-house
theatre playhouse
vet animal-doctor, deerleech [NOTE 4]
[NOTE 1] "Abattoir" is a euphemism I find rather distasteful since it further removes us from the reality of what is going on, that is, the slaughter of animals. And I do not mean to say that I am against the slaughter of animals, for I am not, but I think it's important to recognise, respect, and remember where these little parcels of meat come from. Dressing it all up in words like "abattoir" smacks of being an animal equivalent of something like "collateral damage".
[NOTE 2] We do also have other euphemisms and humorous formations such as "knocking-shop" and "knocking-house", of course.
[NOTE 3] They also say "läsaret", the etymology of which I do not know. Someone care to enlighten me?
[NOTE 4] Deer is the homeborn word for "animal", still used in other Germanic languages (e.g. Swedish djur); the original word for "deer", therefore, is actually hart.
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Outlandish Words
The game being "English purism", we often talk about "foreign" language features imported into English. Therefore the word "foreign" pops up quite a bit in our discussions. However, I just wanted to make some quick points about the word "foreign", its derivitives, and how we gloss them in Anglish.
Johnny Foreigner
"Foreigner" is easily translatable as outlander, which is attested with that meaning.
"Foreign country" is likewise easy to set over into Anglish with attested outland.
But what about "foreign"? The attested form is "outlandish". However, the meaning of this word has shifted so much as to be surely unrehabilitatable; I suspect it will now always retain hints of derisoriness even if we were to reappropriate it for the meaning of "foreign".
A couple of options, therefore, present themselves to my mind.
(1) Change the pronunciation. Outlandish with its current main sense to stay as it is; with the sense of "foreign" it could be pronounced with the first, not the second, syllable stressed.
(2) Use the wordoutland instead which has an attested adjectival meaning of "foreign", attested up till this very day, indeed (so sayeth the OED (pbui)).
I suspect strategy two is more likely to suceed.
We do of course also have the word "abroad". Abroad, abroadland, abroadish? Perhaps, but maybe not. I think I'll stick with outland (adj. and noun, country) and outlander (noun, person).
Foreign Foreign vs. Anglosphere Foreign
A final note before I wind this quick post up.
I often find myself, much to the confusion of others, referring to "English" but meaning "anglospheric"; that is, 'of the worldwide Anglo-saxon culture, community, history, and language'. This is a kind of "foreigner lite", I suppose, where Spaniards, Brazilians, and Chinese are all 'foreign foreign', and Aussies, Americans, and Canadians being kind of 'home foreign'.
I don't really find "anglospheric" to be satisfactory; and certainly, on Anglish grounds it is unacceptable. So what to say? "English speaking lands" doesn't quite tickle my linguistic g-spot. English outlands? Not sure. Need to think on it a bit more…
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I haven't seen the subject of this post get given any real treatment by Anglish enthusiasts, so I thought I'd give it a (cursory) go. And that subject is spelling.
The English spelling system has been profoundly influenced by 1066 and its aftermath. I'll give a couple of sets of examples before moving on to talk briefly about what this all means for "Anglish".
The Great Vowel Shift & Anglo-Norman Scribes
Let's look at the vowel sound in sound, found, and cow.
Over a very long period of time, the vowels in English shifted around quite a lot; the so-called Great Vowel Shift. [Notes 1, 2] Old English "long" i, as in the word min 'mine', which was pronounced like Modern English (ModE) <ee> as in "keep", changed to the "eye" sound it has now. min –> mine, win –> wine, lic(an) –> like. And so on. However, the spelling of the vowel stayed the same. [Note 3] That is, we do not write <main>, <wain>, and <laik>. This reflects the inheritance of ModE "long" i from Old English (OE) long i.
A similar thing happened with OE "long" u which was pronounced as "oo"; after the great vowel shift it diphthongised, coming to be pronounced as "au", or the <ow> of 'cow'. The OE word was cu. Likewise, Old English mus, hus, and tun, pronounced "moose", "hoose", and "toon", became, can you guess? Mouse, house, and town. Notice that, unlike with OE long i, the long u did have a spelling change. Namely, to <ou>. Why?
Simple answer, really. Let's just say: bijou, Anjou, and Petits Filous. Yes, that formidable swinehoard France was to blame. Again. Basically, the Anglo-Norman scribes spelt English as they spelt their own language; thus "u" became "ou".[Note 4]
If this change from <u> to <ou> seems trifling and marginal, then I would just say that it is the tip of the iceberg, an iceberg that we'll come to look at from up a little closer later in this post.
Hypercorrective Spellings (Hyperactive Monks?)
Many spellings were wrixled [Note 5], mostly to the effect of worsening the correspondence between sound and symbol, due to scribes attempting to make words look more like their (supposed) Greek or Latin forebears. In this way, "debt" acquired a <b> (despite coming from French dette), "receipt" acquired a <p> (altho the same root did not acquire a <p> in "deceit" or "receive", none of these three words having a <p> in the French, in any case), and "admiral" acquired both a <d> and, ultimately, a spelling pronunciation /d/ sound [Note 6], to make it resemble the Latin word from which it doesn't come; it actually comes from the Arabic amir-ar-rahl, by way of French amirail(!)
Now if this isn't sheer idiocy, I don't know what is. But I contest that this obsession with Latin and Greek antecedents, this fetish of the foreign, had and has its origins in the Norman Conquest and the culture-change it has ever stood for.
Anglish and Modern Old English
There are, in line with my previous analysis [Note 7], two main ways you could go with all of this (so far as Anglish is concerned). You could either go the "Modern Old English" route, or you could go a more "Anglishy" way. Let's look at the possibilities.
Modern Old English
Here we try to undo all or almost all influence resulting ultimately from 1066 and all that . In this way, spellings may be even better at times: <qu> would be replaced by <cw>, such that we have something like <cwene>, <cwick>, and <cwoþ>. Which leads us onto <th> getting the old heave-ho in favour of <þ>; an "improvement", perhaps, as it cleaves to the alphabetic principle of "one sound one symbol": <þis>, <faþer>, and <wiþ>.
Some other times, spelling might not improve, but actually get worse!
Why not let's re-instate the silent <w> in "lisp" which was probably lost from the spelling due to most <wl-> words themselves being lost from English, ousted by foreign counterparts! Thus, <wlisp>. After all, we still have the silent <w> in <write>, <wrong>, and <wretched>, a fairly analogous case.
How about shifting:
<house> and <louse> to <hus> and <lus>;
<boat>, <road>, and <stone> to <bat>, <rad>, and <stan>;
<yellow> and <yes> to <gellow> and <ges>;
<church> to <circe> and <chin> to <cinn>;
<ice> to <is>?
This is fun, actually!
But perhaps pointless.
I think simply keeping the current system as it is, with all its French influences intact, is the plainest and therefore best thing to do. I would merely remove etymological and pseudo-etymological spellings which were designed to resemble Latin or Greek. Thus, we would write <stomack> and <anker> or <ancor>, not <stomach> and <anchor>. The reason? English spelling, despite having a French side, is understood by ordinary people, and works, quite well; <ch> is, well, ch, not k [Note 8]! Problems arising in the English spelling system are mostly due to three areas, areas I will not discuss further as that is a topic for another post: (1) spellings of the sort I have been discussing, (2) reduction of vowel sounds in English, usually to schwa, and (3) a lack of adequate representation for the "ow!" sound versus the "oh!" sound; does <row> mean an "argument", pronounced "r-ow!", or does it mean the thing you do on a boat, pronounced "r-oh!"?
Thus, I personally take the spelling system as it is, prefering instead to alter individual spellings which do not work from a phonemic point of view due to their being, in my mind, spuriously altered or modelled along French, Latin, or Greek lines; thus, I write <dout>, <det>, <ancor>, and <receit>.
But I feel I am now sliding towards a separate post on the merits of the English spelling system, so I will stop myself there. I hope this has been an interesting beginning to the debate, if only a beginning.
[Note 1] The Great Vowel Shift at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
[Note 2] The Great Vowel Shift didn't become "completed" in all English-speaking areas, however. In parts of the UK, specifically the north, "long" u didn't diphthongise; or to put it another way, "There's a moose, a-loose, aroun' this hoose! danDAHdanAH aDANAHdana adundundunnadun!"
[Note 3] Arguably, and it is actually my view, but the non-contiguous sequence <i…e> is in fact a single grapheme; thus, the spelling of the vowel did change, from <i> to <i…e>. But this is a complication stemming from a separate issue which obscures the matter at hand.
[Note 4] Note that we write <cow> not <cou>; the reason is the same as why we write <oil>-<toil>-<toy>. Essentially, <ow> is what I call an allograph of <ou> when representing the sound /au/ used in final position: <out>-<bout>-<bow>.
[Note 5] "Wrixled" means "changed", remember?
[Note 6] A "spelling pronunciation" is when people pronounce a word as it is spelt despite this not being the 'true' way of saying the word. Essentially, the usual thing that happens is people believe that the way they grew up saying this word is wrong, the correct way being in line with the spelling. Which is actually a fairly reasonable assumption, and given the stigma and ill effects associated with "poor speaking", it's easy to understand how such things happen. And so they hypercorrect , thus resulting in things like "admiral" and foreign-ese "receipt" (with a /p/ sound). Interestingly, I've even heard some native English speakers, without joking, say "receipt" with a /p/. Hmm. A hundred years from now…
[Note 7] See my blog entry "1066 Wrixled Everything"
[Note 8] Or, more precisely, the grapheme <ch>, by default, represents the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate, whereas the voiceless velar plosive is represented usually by either <c>, <k>, <ck>, or <q>.
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"English", "Anglish", and "Englandish"
This post is just a quick note about terminology.
The English poet William Barnes (1801-1886) did more than probably anyone before him to work out a newly formed English English, an English cleansed of untoward foreign elements. Incidentally, a great book on him and his linguistic tinkerings is "The Rebirth of England and English" by Andrew Phillips which features a decent sized wordlist.
Barnes used the term "Englandish" to refer to English as it was actually spoken (as opposed to the true "English" which would not have such a profusion of Greek, Latin, and French). Likewise, I will sometimes use the term "Englandish" to mean "English as it actually is including all Greco-Latin and French elements".
"Anglish", as stated last time, means "English as it could be if we were to make better use of its homeborn roots".
Come to think of it, I may end up amending this post to become a full glossary of terms I use in the course of this blog.
Link to book by Andrew Phillips: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Rebirth-England-English-William/dp/1898281173/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334751270&sr=8-1
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During Monday's press conference, Eddie Hearn confirmed the fight between the British boxer, Tony Bellew and Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk. The bout will take place on November 10th. Usyk is the undisputed cruiserweight world champion. After becoming the first boxer to lift the Muhammad Ali trophy, Usyk became the top target for Tony Bellew. Luckily for boxing fans from around the world, Usyk accepted to meet Bellew in the ring.
Bellew, the favourite on Android betting apps, is confident he will win the upcoming bout. One of the reasons Tony believes this to be true is the fact that Usyk hasn't come across someone like the 35-year-old. "A lunatic who believes in himself," Bellew shortly described himself.
However, in one of the recent interviews, the Liverpudlian hinted that he's been thinking about retiring from boxing. As Bellew explained, he's been sitting with the idea of leaving the boxing ring for a year and a half. "The sooner I stop, maybe the better," said Bellew. The Briton continued, "I would fight anyone – King Kong if I was allowed I would." Bellew also explained that he thinks he's a risk – both from the physical and emotional point of view.
As for Usyk's plans, the Ukrainian boxer wants to fight Anthony Joshua after the Bellew fight. As Oleksandr explained, the opportunity to fight Joshua was the main reasons why he accepted a match with Bellew.
Everyone wants to fight with AJ, so we can't blame Usyk for that. David Haye believes that even though Joshua retained all of his belts by defeating Povetkin, as well as an impeccable boxing record, there's one guy that could take all of that from the former Olympic gold medallist. According to Haye that guy is Joe Joyce.
But for now, let's focus on the Bellew-Usyk fight. The Ukrainian will put his WBO, WBC, WBA, and IBF cruiserweight titles on the line. In two weeks' time, we'll see if Usyk will retain all of his belts. We'll also have more news on Bellew's retirement, so stay tuned.

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The Strength of Our Troops with 'Chain of Command'
January 15, 2018 | By David Hinckley
National Geographic takes a dramatic gamble, and it pays off in Chain of Command, a new eight-part series based on America's military and intelligence flow chart for combatting worldwide insurgency.
The order amidst the chaos.
Chain of Command, which launches Monday at 9 p.m. ET, examines how we protect America – and to a degree, by extension, the rest of the world – from the kind of attacks we saw on September 11 and more recently in arenas, shopping malls, and nightclubs.
To civilians, this often feels like it's just too big and elusive a target. While Chain of Command can't completely assuage those concerns, it reassures us there are battle plans.
Those plans start in the Oval Office, home of the commander in chief. Nat Geo follows them down through the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where we get extensive commentary from Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, to ground commanders who executive plans that incorporate as little as a few blocks of a contested city.
The first episode starts with Capt. Quincy Bahler, a young Tennessee officer whose unit is stationed in Mosul, Iraq, working to clear the streets of Daesh, or ISIS troops, so Iraqi soldiers can move in and take back the city, building by building.
Bahler notes that under current rules of engagement, U.S. troops don't go into the streets. The Iraqis do that. The mission of the U.S. and a few other allied nations is "support," which for Bahler means watching video screens that pick up movement in contested areas.
He then must determine, with the help of Iraqis and ground informants, whether the moving figures on the screens are ISIS fighters, Iraqi troops or civilians.
If it's ISIS, Bahler will likely blow the building up.
The show picks up in late 2016 after ISIS fighters captured Mosul and left much of the city trashed. Coalition forces are now slowly reclaiming what's left.
Needless to say, Mosul residents are the innocent victims here, their homes and infrastructure destroyed. Exactly where they can go for refuge also isn't clear, and the open nature of the ruined city also means U.S. troops can't exactly hole up in a nice safe fortress. They're on the streets, too, in a place where any man, woman or child could be strapped with a suicide bomb.
Chain of Command spends considerable time down at ground level, even as it explains how a counterintelligence operation in Africa or Central America fits into the larger mission of finding and neutralizing terrorists everywhere.
The soldiers are impressive. They joke around, they kill time and they're serious about their mission. They also seem to grasp nuances, like the way heavy-handedness can win a day, but in the process seed even more radical behavior tomorrow.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Dunford says bluntly that we won't win the "war on terrorism" until we help eradicate the reasons people become terrorists: poverty, dispossession, oppression, hopelessness.
The war on terrorism has always looked like a juggling act from outside, and it looks much the same from the inside. It's both disturbing to see what America and other countries face and reassuring that we're not ignoring it.
Chain of Command can't neatly connect every dot or promise we'll win every match. It does assure us a qualified team is on the field.


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Does anyone know the login user run some real time searches when user just is opening the following screen page.
When I checked the CPU usage in splunk server by monitoring console, it is the cause for my user who was role of "user" to run some real-time-searches .
And the search was running as real-time-search during 1 hour.
At the duration, my user did not run ad-hoc search and schedule-search.
I am wondering the panel of "What to Search" might be the cause to run some real-time-searches.
Additionally, does anyone know how to let them be disable?
Any advice or opinion are appreciated.
you mean to set the following setting in /etc/local/ui-prefs.conf, don't you?
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Miley Cyrus Revealed She's Now Two Weeks Sober: 'I Fell Off'
The singer opened up about her struggles throughout the pandemic.
By Whitney Perry
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After revealing this June that she was six months sober, Miley Cyrus is opening up about her struggles throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
While promoting her upcoming album, Plastic Hearts, the "Prisoner" singer revealed she is now two weeks sober. "Well, I, like a lot of people, being completely honest, during the pandemic fell off and felt really a lot of...and I would never sit here and go, 'I've been fucking sober,'" Cyrus said during a recent New Music Daily interview, per People. "I fell off and I realized that I now am back on sobriety, two weeks sober, and I feel like I really accepted that time."
For those attempting to stay sober, one of the most difficult parts can be reacting to mistakes. So often people punish themselves for lapsing, which can become a vicious cycle—something Cyrus seems to understand. "One of the things I've used is 'Don't get furious; get curious,'" she continued. "So don't be mad at yourself, but ask yourself, 'What happened?'"
However, Cyrus did clarify that her reasons for staying sober has less to do with addiction, per se, and more to do with the decisions she makes under the influence.
"To me, it was a fuck-up because I'm not a moderation person, and I don't think that everyone has to be fucking sober," she said. "I think everyone has to do what is best for them. I don't have a problem with drinking. I have a problem with the decisions I make once I go past that level of...I've just been wanting to wake up 100%, 100% of the time."
For Cyrus, who is celebrating her 28th birthday today, November 23, the past year of her life was particularly volatile. "Twenty-seven to me was a year that I really had to protect myself," she said, per People. "That actually really made me want to get sober was because we've lost so many icons at 27. It's a very pivotal time. You go into that next chapter or this is it for you. I just feel that some of the artists almost couldn't handle their own power and their own energy and their own force. It's an energy. I, no matter what, was born with that."
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"When I became case manager three years ago, Nick Mitchell who is now based in Grimsby was my mentor. He was very supportive and motivational and he still finds the time to talk to me now when I see him and ask how I am finding the job.


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Wynyard Central Ground Break
Prime Minister John Key turns the sod on next phase of development in Wynyard Quarter
The Prime Minister and Mayor Len Brown have dug the sods for the first homes as part of the ongoing revitalisation of Wynyard Quarter on Auckland's waterfront this afternoon.
Over 100 dignitaries and mana whenua attended the ground breaking in Daldy Street to mark the build of 113 townhouses and apartments over the next three years.
More than 60 per cent of dwellings in the development called Wynyard Central, have already sold off the plans.
Eventually 500-600 apartments, townhouses and duplexes of various sizes are to be built across five sites in the area by the developer Willis Bond.
The developments form part of the ongoing regeneration of 18.5 hectares of Auckland Council owned land in Wynyard Quarter that began in 2009, being led by the council organisation, Panuku Development Auckland.
Panuku Development Auckland Interim Chief Executive John Dalzell says the transformation of Wynyard Quarter provides a blue print for what can be achieved in select other sites across the region.
"What we're talking about is setting an exemplar for medium density development. Building designs will inspire and new behaviours will be encouraged through approaches to recycling, energy and water conservation and generation, walking and cycling amenities, car parking and transport."
"It won't just be tenant or homeowners who are set to benefit from the development either as with 11,000 m2 of new laneways and open spaces, including nearly 1,300 metres of retail, visitors to Wynyard Quarter will be able to experience a whole new part of the city."
Len Brown says it is a great day for Wynyard Quarter.
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Prime Minister John Key says the development reinforces what's needed to accommodate future growth in the region.
This whole area (Wynyard Quarter) is really looking absolutely fabulous. Auckland has got to go up and it's got to go out and it's got to do both those things in equal proportions,"
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Superior Hydrostatic Glass
November 28, 2010 Leave a Comment Written by Cris Johnson
To my readers who live in the US, I hope your Turkey Day was fun, restful and enjoyable. To my friends in other parts of the world who do not celebrate Thanksgiving, I STILL hope your day was fun, restful and enjoyable.:)
Obviously I am a few days late with this blog. In short, being sick for nearly two months straight and traveling all over the east coast of the US all that time really knocked me on my butt, so I hot the couch and gave myself some R&R. (I spent it watching my new DVDs of "The Greatest American Hero," a 3 season TV series from the early 80′s. REALLY fun re-visiting my childhood!)
The new issue of "Cause & Effects" my free monthly ezine, should go out on schedule, on or about December 1st. Those of you who recently signed up have been added. You can sign up by emailing me at crisjohnsoninfo@verizon.net. This month I tackle the "too-perfect theory" in mentalism and why, for the most part, I think it's rubbish. It's an opinion piece, sure to spark debate.:)
On to this week's review…The Superior Hydrostatic Glass. It's available for $52.50 from Hocus Pocus. Here's the link to the ad: http://www.hocus-pocus.com/magicshop/product_detail.cfm?item=4633
EFFECT: You pour water (or any liquid) into a glass. You then cover the glass with a piece of paper and turn the glass upside down. The paper stays in place, so the liquid doesn't fall. Then you slide the paper off and it STILL stays in place! At your command, or an audience member's command, the liquid falls out.
WHAT YOU GET: You get the glass itself (packed in a sturdy cardboard box), the gimmick (packed into an envelope to prevent scratching)and details instructions, as in 4 pages' worth.
QUALITY OF EQUIPMENT: When I bought this, I told the folks at Hocus Pocus I wanted something good, not a 'toy' out of a children's magic set. This is the one they recommended. On the Hocus Pocus site, there are several versions – one for around $12 and even one for several hundred dollars. I feel for the money I spent this is extremely well built. The glass is sturdy and looks like a natural, normal solid glass you'd pick up in any department store. It's also a GOOD glass, not cheap looking. The gimmick is well made and fits the glass very well and is easy to 'load.' Rock-solid.
QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION: As I said, there are several pages of instructions, detailing care for the props, how the effect works, performance tips, trouble-shooting tips, alternate performance tips and more. There really is not any advice as far as scripting or presentation, so you're on your own. I however had a script already in place when I bought it.:) Good, basic info that more than covers the handling.
DIFFICULTY: Technically, this is an easy effect – a 1 out of 10. The real key to remember is prop management: where are you going to hide the gimmick until it comes into play? For that matter, where are you going to keep the glass and liquid until it's time for this effect? Most critically, where are you going to 'catch' the liquid? (If you do it at your main performance table, some splashing may dampen or even soak your other props.) What I'm getting at is while the effect may be easy, because it involves liquid, blocking and prop management becomes extremely important as well as your script.
MARKETS: Thus far, I've only performed this in schools, for kids in grades K-5. That being said, not only do the kids like it, but when the liquid is finally 'released,' it always generates spontaneous applause from the adults. My feeling is this will play well to adults as well.
ONE SORE SPOT: Because of the method, there is a small bit of 'talking' as you put the gimmick in place with the glass. For me on stage, this is no big deal because I'm talking the entire time (except when I remove the paper – gotta play that part for drama!) If you are a silent performer, you'll need some music to cover this 'talking' especially if you perform this in close quarters. I always use it on stage, so for me, no big deal.
ANGLES: You really can't do this surrounded because of the nature of the gimmick, but I will say that once the gimmick is in place, all angles are covered, so the enterprising performer may be able to pull off a surrounded performance. The angles are VERY forgiving, and besides, as I've often said, if I'm doing a stage show surrounded, I must be in hell.:)
EFFECT ON AUDIENCE: As mentioned earlier, I know this effect (and this version) has been around forever. In fact, I had a cheesy version in an old magic set that was horrible looking. I never really thought it was much of an effect until I had a critical need for a good water effect in one of my shows in schools. Well, after performing it 8 or so times for crowds of people from 200-400 strong, I can say it KILLS. I now understand why so many pros use a version of this effect in their shows!
MY OVERALL RANKING: Based on the solid workmanship and the great reaction it generates, I have to give this a 10 out of 10. If you work out the issues I mentioned above, this is a winner and a heck of a value.
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Multiplicity DVD and Yet Another TASTE Update
Hey Everybody,
Cris Johnson here with more magic review goodness! I'm going to be quick because I've only got a short amount of time between shows today. Busy, busy, busy!
First of all, I'm doing something today that I don't think I've ever done – I am revising my score for a product! As the title of this week's blog suggests, it's for Bobby Motta's TASTE.
When I first reviewed it, I believe I gave it a 9 out of 10. I felt that the product was put together extremely well and from a technical standpoint it was sensational. I also wrote that while my response to the effect was quite good, I anticipated the response getting even better over time.
Well, after tweaking my script slightly, the response went through the ROOF! I can now safely say TASTE is a perfect 10 out of 10. You see, it's so easy to just judge a product by the package you receive, but I decided when I started this blog nearly a year ago I decided that the audience reaction for the effect would factor into the score.
Simple – Certain effects that look great or have cool props have (for me) sometimes fallen flat. Now I know that one man's trash is another man's treasure, which is why reviews are tricky. Nevertheless, I feel very comfortable bumping up TASTE's score to a 10 out of 10. One of the BEST releases of the year, bar none.
Now, onto this week's new review…Multiplicity by Max maven. It's available for $71.95 from Hocus Pocus. Here's the ad copy:http://www.hocus-pocus.com/magicshop/product_detail.cfm?item=14285
EFFECT: The main thrust of this DVD is exploring the concept of Equivoque, although other mentalism tools are explored, such as the concept of multiple outs.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE: You get one DVD that they manged to cram over 3 hours onto – quite a feat! Interestly, there is a small 'effect' right on the back of the DVD package. Simply turn the package over, read it, and you're instantly introduced to Max's thinking. It's not earth-shattering, but it's nice that someone used the DVD case in a unique way.
QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION: It's Max Maven so you know the instruction is top-notch. There are something like 24 effects on this DVD and almost all are practical and many can be adapted for stage or used for close up.
DIFFICULTY: There are few technical moves on this DVD. (A few, and they're easy) The real work is going to come from your scripting and making sure you have rehearsed enough so that when using equivoque you don't hesitate between choices. This is a concept Max spends a lot of time on.
MY THOUGHTS: Overall, this is a marvelous release. An added bonus is the presence of special guest Eugene Burger, whom I adore. I had the privilege of meeting Eugene years ago in Chicago and in my opinion, there's no one classier than Eugene.
The effects themselves use objects and concepts like coins, famous paintings, clocks, and many more. My particular favorite was the routine in which the spectator is asked to name off several children's songs. The person then picks one of the songs and Max plays the song on one of those little portable recorders that hold 30 seconds or so of sound.
This is a sensational idea and I immediately began thinking of ways to adapt it to stage. I should note that in this particular piece, Max does not explain one important component that makes this effect work. However, my experience in mentalism immediately gave me the solution to fill in the rest of the secret. I admit, I felt pretty proud of myself when this hit me.
Of the majority of effects using just equivoque for the solution, Max teaches some fascinating, advanced concepts regarding equivoque and then plays several routines, including the aforementioned song effect. Max himself states he deliberately did not teach each individual effect by itself, instead asking that viewers study each effect and apply what Max has given us.
Fair enough – it makes for great viewing and many of the routines show off Max's quirky sense of humor, something that I feel was missing in some of his earlier (yet still marvelous) L&L releases). I found myself laughing out loud as Max used handcuffs in an equivoque presentation in which he handcuffs the participant! GREAT stuff, and if I was going to use any routine "straight out of the box," that would be it.
Another high point is an effect in which Max places four cards in a spectator's pocket and the spectator says the number 1, 2, 3 or 4 and that many cards has LEFT his pocket. A similar effect is demoed on the ad. This one fooled me badly the first 3 times I watched it.
Max really takes the concept of the audience only knowing what they see and nudging their thoughts in certain directions bit by bit using fascinating psychology.
The only gripe I have is the fact that Max does NOT explain the sensational Handout effect, viewable on the demo in which Eugene chooses a bad that does not have a brick in it. I don't need to go further than that, as I know from reading on line that many people were most excited by this presentation. After watching it, I can be sure of at least one thing – Max is not using equivoque, as his language suggests no discernable 'out' before Eugene makes his choice.
This aspect of the DVD has caused some debate. Some have felt that Max has given us enough tools in the DVD to piece together a method for the Handout effect while others, such as myself, felt disappointment that this effect was used to market the DVD for sale without a "Performance Only" notation.
Regardless, this is a fantastic release that forces viewers to really think about their craft and Max, Eugene and Jeff McBride and others of their ilk are the best at doing just that.
MY REVIEW: It's Max maven…along with a laughing, giggling Eugene Burger! How could I not give this a 10 out of 10? I didn't describe every effect because there's just so much, but trust me, buy this DVD and you'll find something to add to your act. And you'll get some great food for thought.
Cris Johnson
UPDATE on Taste & The End
OK, this is not something I normally do, but I wanted to give you an update regarding Taste & The End. I received a message from Bobby in which he assured me that the loose screws problem I mentioned in my review of The End would never happen again, as after reading my review, he would make sure that locktite(sp?) would be used with each screw.
Regarding Taste, he also mentioned that to prevent scratches, the cups would be shipped wrapped for protection.
Honestly, the screws were no big deal to me – I chalk it up to vibrations in travel. The cups I expect to look a little used – adds to them not looking suspicious.
I really respect Bobby for responding to me review and addressing these items.
Honestly, I really dig Bobby's stuff and can't wait for the next release. And quite frankly, customer service like this is hard to find in magic.
Thank you to Bobby Motta for being such a fantastic believer in great customer service!
And now, because it's 1:00AM, I'm off to bed…I just got back from performing a late night college stage hypnosis show and I am BEAT.
G'Night!
- Cris
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The End by Bobby Motta
Well, after 3 weeks I FINALLY feel better! It's been rough being sick so much, but I've been home all week, bonding with our new little puppy, Sophie. She is SO cute! A little white puff ball, essentially.:)
Don't forget – my next issue of "Cause & Effects," the FREE ezine, comes out in December where I tackle the 'too-perfect theory' in mentalism. Sign up for free by sending an email to crisjohnsoninfo@verizon.net.
On to this week's review…
It's The End by Bobby Motta. It's $695 and available from Hocus Pocus. Here's the link to the ad copy: http://www.hocus-pocus.com/magicshop/inc/product_detail.cfm?item=13070
EFFECT: An attractive metal frame with 6 metal 'cards' is displayed. The cards are in an order that does not spell anything recognizable. The cards are removed and then the board is spun around on the stand. After it's spun around, the audience sees numbers 1 through 6, and the audience is asked to choose which card goes into which number…with the cards' letters turned around, facing away from the audience, of course.
Despite the fact that the audience simply guessed which letter went into which number, when the board is soun around, it spells THE END, signifying the end of your show.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE: The main aluminum board, the six metal letter cards, the stand, a carrying bag for the stand, and DVD instructions.
QUALITY OF PROPS: This is a GREAT looking piece! Lightweight yet durable, this thing looks like a million bucks. My only beef? As I took it on the road for a few days of shows, 4 screws came loose and fell out. (I found and replaced all but one.) This irritated me, but in the grand scheme of things, it's forgiveable. The big thing is this prop looks great on stage and while props do not make the show, a good looking show can certainly help.
QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION: Bobby always gives good instruction and he gives some good tips and presentation ideas to help the performer. The thing that I didn't care for was his idea of spreading the effect throughout the show and revealing the climax at the end. That's just me, and fortunately, there are several ways to present such an effect. As always, while Bobby's DVD production value does not match Bob Kohler or L&L, it's still really good.
DIFFICULTY: This is another effect where the technical needs are an easy 1 out of 10 in terms of difficulty, but the fact that the 'move' does 'talk,' which Bobby acknowledges, makes this effect a bit more difficult in that you must time the 'move' with another innocent 'move.' No big deal and for me, a few days of practice and I was set.
MY THOUGHTS: OK, first of all, when I first saw the effect hit the market, I thought, 'great, just what the magic community needs – a $700 version of the Spelling Bee effect.' If you're familiar with the old Spelling Bee effect, you know that you must turn the board away from the audience before you remove the board. Then I watched the THE END demo and I noticed that you can take away the cards FACING the audience and THEN spin the board around. It's a tremendous improvement over the classic effect and it's what convinced me to buy it.
As my readers know, I do a lot of middle & high school shows. For the past year, I've been using Bobby Motta's ALIVE (the rat effect) to end those teen shows. From an impact standpoint, it was and is AMAZING, but to end the show with the rat scurrying up my arm and the kids "wowing" over the animal seemed too abrupt. I want to bring the energy level down a bit to let the audience "breathe." Enter…THE END.
I've performed it 5 times and it serves nicely as an end to the show because it is a definite end to the show, but thus far, it does not blow the audience away. It's good, don't get me wrong, but it's another effect that really requires a good presentation…in other words, you can't rest on the prop itself. It's a tool and if used properly, will work nicely.
MY FINAL VERDICT: I'll give this a 8 out of 10. A nicely built effect, but the screws falling out brings the score down and the (so far) muted reaction means I have more work to do and that's okay with me.
Tune in next week when I review the new Max Maven DVD "Multiplicity."
TASTE by Bobby Motta
November 4, 2010 Leave a Comment Written by Cris Johnson
Cris Johnson here with a brand new review! Before I get to it, I just received this email regarding my Clear-View Airborne:
Hi Cris.
I just received the Clear View Airborne in the mail last night. I have nothing but praise for what you and your wife Libby have accomplished here. I've been performing this effect off and on for quite some time. I've used the Coke can, 7-Up can and the Ultimate Airborne (with any bottle.) I experienced all of the frustrations that you described with the preceding gimmicks and I'm delighted to have such a well made prop.
I speak to business audiences 30 – 40 times a year. Wine bottles don't fit my presentation. The Ultimate Airborne gimmick is so large and visible it practically gives away the secret. The Coke and 7 Up cans are not only difficult to hook up and frustrating to fill, they don't last very long. (Yours is a bit pricey, but I'm betting it will outlast the cans by 2 or 3 times.)
I love the Airborne effect and now that I have yours, It's going back in to the line-up on a regular basis.
Thought you'd like to know.
That was from John Tongick, a CPA out of California. thanks John!
the Clear-View Airborne magazine ad is in this month's Magic magazine and I think Hocus Pocus did a GREAT job!!
On to this week's review:
TASTE by Bobby Motta – available for $1495.00 from Hocus Pocus. Here's the link: http://www.hocus-pocus.com/magicshop/inc/product_detail.cfm?item=13942
EFFECT: Five ordinary cups are filled with different drinks. The performer can either be blindfolded or in a different room and will always know which drink has been TASTEd. Stop reading and think about that for a second. Yes it's that amazing. You are reading senses so convincingly clean that it no longer is a puzzle, but a question of uncertainty to any skeptic. This effect will take you there! More than just a great mind reading tool but a totally unique approach to mentalism.
5 customized black steins/cups (much nicer design than the ones used in the video performance).
ProMystic Modular Receiver
Industrial finger suction cup to access the secured gimmick
5 professionally cut circular dry erase labels with Velcro
Full Instructional DVD with performance rights
Modern Carrying Case
QUALITY OF PROPS: The electronics are top-notch and are small and easily hidden. The cup units are removeable so you can wash the cups, but once in place, I don't think anyone will ever find them. They are designed to be invisible. The receiver (that lets you know which cup is being drank from) is tiny. You could easily palm it if you want. Bobby gives you several ways to conceal it, but it's so little, that a myriad of possibilities are there.
The receiver works like a dream – again, REALLY well-made. The cups themselves are nothing special…just 5 plastic 'mug' type cups with a little velcro to hold the white, round signs to identify the drinks. Mine came a little scuffed up, but being black, it's not a big deal. Although initially disappointed, I realized that fancy cups would detract from the effect.
the carrying case is top notch. I'm always impressed when a product comes with a case. It's a great way to transport everything and protect the investment.
QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION: there are actually two sets of instructions – one by Bobby and one by the creator of the electronics. Both are required viewing, as Bobby's way of 'installing' the electronics to the cups each use was much easier than what the electronics guy talked about, yet the electronics guy covered critical info on batteries, maintenance and details on how the electronics work.
Plus, Bobby gives you several ideas as far as routining, so you're not just saying, "Drink something and I'll tell you what it is." Of course, the fact that the dryerase signs are removeable serves as a great way to end the routine as well as throw off the illogic of having the drinks poured out of the original containers.
Details like this convince me that Bobby's been doing this routine for quite a while.
DIFFICULTY: This is easily a 1 out of 10. The hardest part is the set up and the memory of which signal signifies which drink. Although Bobby talks about using mnemonics to remember the drinks that an audience freely chooses and puts in the cups, I've (for now) opted to go with the same 5 drinks (provided by me) at every show (as Bobby himself usually does it.)
Again, the true "work" will be your scripting and routine.
MY THOUGHTS: I do have to say I was initially disappointed that there is NO performance video. Bobby included one such video on the ALIVE DVD (his stellar rat trick). I'm not sure why he did not include such a video, as it would have been very helpful in terms of pacing and routine structure. Of course, it's his right to protect his own routine, but it would have been helpful.
Nevertheless, the routine for me does play quite strong. After quite a bit of rehearsal with the props, I put together a simple 3-phase routine and have performed it 5 times thus far and I'm pleased to report it plays very strongly. I'm a firm believer that performance #5 of a new effect will not NEARLY be as good as performance #100, so I'm sure the reactions will get better.
I only mention this as a warning…the props do 98% of the physical work, so solid scripting is crucial here.
As a comparison, the Mind Reading Goose, at the same fee, gives you a rock-solid, scripted routine, a good goose prop and a not-so-hot method (messy set up), while this investment gives you INCREDIBLE props and some decent ideas of routining, but no scripting at all. Both are worthy investments, but are in many ways exact opposites in terms of what their respective strengths are.
Again, both are great, but different. Just something I noticed.
PLAYS TO AGES: As further endorsement of this purchase, I bought it primarily for my middle school shows…grades 6-8. These kids do not respond to most traditional magic (they like animals, but if you pull out a silk routine, you'll more than likely get booed off the stage. Conversey, many times this age group does not have the patience for a lot of traditional mentalism. Case in point: Bob Cassidy's 4th Dimentional Telepathy. SENSATIONAL routine, but all that envelope stuffing would die in front of middle schoolers.
I bought TASTE with the idea that it was so direct and so impossible that it would work for this difficult age group. Thus far, I'm right.:)
What does all this mean for you? I think ages 12 and up (college, teens, adults) will love this. I think a family audience with lots of little kids might not be appropriate because a 6 year old will not understand "mind reading."
MY RATING: I give this a rock-solid 9 out of 10. I think in time for me it will be a 10, but I've got to fine-tune my routine. The props are incredibly well-made and in my opinion, it's a great investment.
Next week, I tackle Bobby Motta's THE END.
About Cris
Like a lot of magicians, Cris Johnson dreamed of performing magic for a living. After struggling for many years with other marketing experts' systems, Cris eventually developed his own techniques for making a living doing what he loved.
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Multilingual bots allow African SMEs to simplify funding across language barriers
Venture Capital funding in Africa more than doubled between 2015 and 2016, and to simplify the funding process, multilingual bots are deployed to break down language barriers.
Even as far back as 2011, a Gallup poll found that one in five African youth plan to start their own business, but how can they access capital if investors don't speak their language?
There are an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 languages spoken in Africa today that are broken down into four main language groups. South Africa alone has 11 official languages, and many on the African continent are multilingual.
For anyone wanting to grow a business in the region, there are three languages that one should be familiar with: Arabic, English, and French as those three tongues are not only spoken in Africa, but they are also the lingua francas of many business transactions globally.
Microsoft recently worked with Growth as a Service fintech platform, Ovamba, to build a multilingual bot that could simplify its funding application intake process.
Ovamba, Co-founded by Marvin Cole, is dedicated to connecting investors with African businesses and distinguishes itself by delivering capital via its mobile app and web based platform, according to its blog.
Using the Microsoft Bot Framework (MBF), developers were able to build a bot that could tap into a multitude of channels, including Ovamba's existing Android application, to meet their customers on their preferred conversation platforms.
Read More: Healthcare Bots Digitally Transform Vietnam's Medical Facilities
In addition to text-based communication, the Bot Framework enables a user to speak to a bot and have the bot to respond back in speech.
Because the Bot Framework can be localized to any language and connected to channels like SMS, Facebook Messenger, and mobile apps, Ovamba decided that the bot would be the best avenue to help them to communicate with, and gather information from their customers.
According to Microsoft Developer Blog authors Claudius Mbemba, Lilian Kasem, and Shawn Cicoria, "Ultimately, Ovamba's goal is to localize their applications and services into their customers' regional African dialects. Given the current lack of translations from English to these lesser-known dialects, we focused on an initial set of 3 languages: English, French, and Arabic."
The result of building the bot gave "a solid template for future Bot Framework projects that includes automated scripts for building, packaging, and testing code."
While the bot was successful at translating across three languages, it set a precedent on how to reach the rest of the population that speaks a multitude of regional dialects through its localization feature.
Developers at Microsoft say, "We plan to continue our work with Ovamba, especially building an African dialect language recognition system to enable application localization and cater to the specific dialects of their customers."
Multilingual bots don't only have the potential to help businesses in Africa receive funding, the applications of these bots can now transcend continents, languages, and industries thanks to this innovative project.
Now, the same Bot Framework with localization could be used to help people in India communicate across dialects to give early warnings about incoming floods caused by monsoons, or even provide better translations for Singapore's tourism industry with its four official languages.
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