Curt Doolittle

Theme: Grammar

  • um. …. Shakespeare’s English is early-modern English, not old English (Anglo-S

    um. …. Shakespeare’s English is early-modern English, not old English (Anglo-Saxon) or Middle English;

    The difference between early modern and modern english is (a) pronunciation was pretty gaelic-sounding, and (b) quite a few words in early modern have fallen out of use.

    Middle English ( 1100-1500)

    The Lord governeth me, and no thing schal faile to me.

    In the place of posture there he hath set me.

    He nurschide me on the water of refreischyng.

    Early Modern English (King James Bible, 1611)

    The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

    He maketh me to lie down in green postures.

    He leadeth me beside the still waters.

    Major historical Periods of the English Language

    1 – Old English AD 449- AD 1066

    2 – Middle English 1066-1509

    3 – Early Modern English 1509-1755

    4 – Present Day English 1755-present

    Old English

    Her for se here of East Englum ofer Humbremuþan to Eoforwicceastre on Norþhymbre, ond þær wæs micel ungeþuærnes þære þeode betweox him selfum, ond hie hæfdun hiera cyning aworpenne Osbryht, ond ungecyndne cyning underfengon Ællan; ond hie late on geare to þam gecirdon þæt hie wiþ þone here winnende wærun, ond hie þeah micle fierd gegadrodon, ond þone here sohton æt Eoforwicceastre, ond on þa ceastre bræcon, ond hie sume inne wurdon, ond þær was ungemetlic wæl geslægen Norþanhymbra, sume binnan, sume butan; ond þa cyningas begen ofslægene, ond sio laf wiþ þone here friþ nam.

    (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A.D. 867)

    Middle English

    Whan that aprill with his shoures soote

    The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,

    And bathed every veyne in swich licour

    Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

    Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth

    Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

    Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne

    Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,

    And smale foweles maken melodye,

    That slepen al the nyght with open ye

    (so priketh hem nature in hir corages);

    Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,

    And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,

    To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

    And specially from every shires ende

    Of engelond to caunterbury they wende,

    The hooly blisful martir for to seke,

    That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

    (Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, c. 1400)

    Early Modern English

    To be, or not to be, that is the Question:

    Whether ’tis Nobler in the minde to suffer

    The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune,

    Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles,

    And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe

    No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end

    The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes

    That Flesh is heyre too? ‘Tis a consummation

    Deuoutly to be wish’d. To dye to sleepe,

    To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there’s the rub,

    For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come,

    When we haue shuffel’d off this mortall coile,

    Must giue vs pawse. There’s the respect

    That makes Calamity of so long life

    (William Shakespeare, Hamlet, c. 1600, First Folio)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-31 19:50:00 UTC

  • DEFINING QUALITY OF THE WEST’S SUCCESS Increasing precision, resolution and conc

    DEFINING QUALITY OF THE WEST’S SUCCESS

    Increasing precision, resolution and conciseness results in packed terms which when understood provide decidibility.

    Increasing ambiguity, obfuscation and verbosity results in overloaded terms which when unpacked contain little substance.

    The former an investment with dividends, the later malinvestment which causes damage.

    Western civ = disambiguation across domains, scales and orders of complexity

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-31 14:20:00 UTC

  • “Just saw you table of grammars, there is enough material for ten years of study

    —“Just saw you table of grammars, there is enough material for ten years of study just there.”— Singular Speech

    Yep. Grammars, Dimensional Warranties of Due Diligence, operational language, acquisitions, propertarianism. Those sets of concepts produce a formal logic of social science, expressible not with set language, but with operational language.

    Like I said. There is a wonderful parsimonious elegance underneath it all. It’s beautiful.

    Truth is enough – and it is now possible.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-29 20:48:00 UTC

  • You will be struck by our New Constitution in that it includes what others do no

    You will be struck by our New Constitution in that it includes what others do not: Definitions as constants, variables, and types, and that there is far more definition, constant, variable and type, than their is prescription. This constitution states what is and what must be. What one then does with that constitution in terms of institution and procedure is then quite short – and relatively unassailable.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-29 18:37:00 UTC

  • INSURE VS ENSURE INSURE (“institutional, guarantee of restitution upon loss, neg

    INSURE VS ENSURE

    INSURE (“institutional, guarantee of restitution upon loss, negative”)

    Insure means to safeguard against loss or damage, typically through the purchase of insurance to do so. If a contract stipulates that the individual must insure something the contract is stipulating that the individual must purchase insurance to safeguard that asset.

    ENSURE (“personal, warranty of due diligence, positive”)

    Ensure is very similar in that it means to make sure or guarantee something, though the specific emphasis on doing so via insurance is not there. If a contract stipulates that an individual must ensure something is taken care of there is no requirement to purchase insurance, rather the individual is to “do their best” to make sure something is taken care of.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-29 08:57:00 UTC

  • FOR NEWBIES: WORK METHODOLOGY (worth repeating) The way I work is by relating id

    FOR NEWBIES: WORK METHODOLOGY

    (worth repeating)

    The way I work is by relating ideas across the spectrum in a series of shorter arguments – because I ‘whittle away’ at the stone so to speak, turning it to view it from different angles, working to gradually expose the figure (truth) below.

    I try to produce operational definitions in series, and to describe behavior as supply and demand using those series of definitions.

    Then I attempt to turn the fundamental insight into one or more aphorisms (summaries).

    Then to create a narrative that explains the topic and its applications.

    Then to weave these narratives together using the same constant language – this editing is what exhausts me and is why it takes me so long to produce a work.

    WORKFLOW

    I work from an outline of the complete scope of human thought.

    I work through the outline from metaphysics to group competitive strategy.

    Then I work with (many) sketches on FB. I move most of them to the web site.

    Then I collect the best of them into what I call ‘short courses’ or collections of posts.

    Then I take those ‘short courses’ and put them into the book.

    Then edit it all into an explanation.

    That’s my workflow.

    It’s actually painfully methodical. It just doesn’t look like it to the casual observer, because most people are desirous of rushing to judgment whereas i tend to exhaust a topic completely (very) before adding it to the canon. Then refine the network of concepts added to the canon once there.

    cheers.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-28 08:51:00 UTC

  • “You are wedded to your jargon and do not care if the average person has a clue

    —“You are wedded to your jargon and do not care if the average person has a clue what you are talking about. Explaining it is fine, understand the jargon is another issue. You are in effect preaching to the converted.”—Steven Vandervelde (Criticizing John Mark and Propertarianism)

    We have been gaining more traction every year as the overton window moves closer to us. And enduring that same criticism all the while. Meanwhile we have produced a stream of people capable of practicing the discipline, in about the same time and effort required to get each level of university degree.

    We convert people daily. just ask them.

    John is the best at reaching larger numbers in a manner that they are comfortable with. This is neither my skill or ambition. We have planned on the emergence of talent as we evolve. it’s happening.

    It is a non trivial subject, as revolutionary in social science as as darwinism, larger than marxism/postmodernism, and cannot be understood any easier. While we can reduce marxism to class conflict and universal monopoly communism and reduce propertarianism to genetic conflict, conflict of civilizations, and universal market nationalism – polar opposites – that does not explain the vast difference between the underlying science and logic and method of propertarianism vs the lies, sophisms, and deceits, and denial, of marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and the abrahamic means of argumentative deceit.

    Revolution Comes

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-27 11:05:00 UTC

  • TERMINOLOGY: NO SHORTCUT TO UNDERSTANDING One does not criticize either terminol

    TERMINOLOGY: NO SHORTCUT TO UNDERSTANDING

    One does not criticize either terminology or deviation from normative definitions, but instead, the precision of the definitions, such that we are free of opportunity for conflation, and subsequent error.

    Each field uses terminology particular to it, and propertarianism (law) uses universals (operational names in series) across all fields. In either case we define terms that eliminate the error and potential for error in colloquial speech (“ordinary language”).

    In other words no field is, can be, reduced to ordinary language without the introduction of the vast ignorance and error that separates ordinary language from scientific language.

    That is because the existence of, and market demands for science and scientific prose evolved precisely to compensate for the ignorance, error, bias, fictionalism, and deceit in ordinary language.

    And moreover, since propertarianism serves as the scientific language of social science – including history, economics, law, sociology, morality, ethics, psychology, and language itself – we are forcing into the political discourse the same adaptation as did the revolution in physical science: and with equally disruptive consequences to normative language, ideas, ideology, religion, and language of those disciplines.

    So the criticism that we should use the colloquial speech in our effort to change social sciences from sophisms and pseudoscience dependent upon intuition and projection, and monopoly and conformity, into a form of calculation as is used in the other sciences, and divisions of cognition and labor, and conditions of cooperation, competition, and war, is rather … ridiculous really.

    All systems of symbolic calculation whether they be the small difference between spoken language and written language, or great differences between spoken language, written language, arithmetic, accounting, geometry, the calculus, relativity, chemistry, biology, ecology, economics, require training.

    The great difference is that we are all more invested in our daily use of the psychological, social, and political, such that we defend those investments no matter how bad they are.

    Unfortunately the average idiot who will readily say he understands neither advanced mathematics, economics, or subatomic physics will not similarly question his understanding of ethics, morality, and politics – thereby demonstrating his lack of agency due to malinvestment and ignorance, and genetic, gender, class, cultural bias.

    Ergo, there is no shortcut to knowledge. Calculation is counter intuitive – particularly in intuitionistic subjects.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-27 10:46:00 UTC

  • Grammar: Rules of continuous disambiguation producing a well formed statement fu

    Grammar: Rules of continuous disambiguation producing a well formed statement functioning as a series of transactions in a contract for meaning.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-23 15:27:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076861788061356032

  • I have to create a page for “Short Course in The Grammars” because I think that’

    I have to create a page for “Short Course in The Grammars” because I think that’s what’s missing from the ‘short courses’ that constitute the fundamentals of propertarian reasoning.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-23 15:23:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076860855860506625