Showing posts with label ayvaric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ayvaric. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Alexander 6, V51.

So, so, so. Here I am starting my first day of fasting. It's not Ramadhan, but I felt the need to do this. I need to reduce my food consumption since I felt many stomach upsets lately.
I didn't post anything yesterday, well, I was kind of busy with transliteration, that I'm trying to boost up little bit, and also I didn't have any images to put on or anything new.

However, today was a sort of a busy day despite the fact that I'm fasting and barely got strength to do anything, but this is what fasting is about; to challenge your own self. I had to check for myself with the garage to see if my car is ready after that damn accident, since no one answers the phone. Yet, the car is not ready yet! Blah!
I'm writing this after having a little nap for 45 minutes before noon. This is supposebut d to be a charger. I'm going to spend the rest of the day working on this transliteration as much as possible as long as my head can remain still on my shoulders. I'm getting to the end and reaching the limits of line #2700. The work won't finish of course by simply finishing this transliteration, but this part will be done for good and it would be like the weight of a mountain been moved out away from my back. On the other hand there would be, after all this is over, changes to some grammatical features and accordingly, some changes in the Ayvarith text of all of the 6 parts all together. Also, sounds that I must record again the Ayvaric (I coined this) narration to get along with such changes, and that means, it is the time to install some good software to manage my sound files. The hard part of this process is to have a strong memory for the words and for the flow. One of the major changes or check-ups that await for me is, the present verb and its suffices (that require short vowels). There had been some ambiguity in this area.

I've been working again with the topic of posting an HDR image on the web and being able to see all exposures manually via a plugin. I've downloaded PTConvert, a software that converts Radiance files (.hdr) into Floating-point JPG (.fjpg) format, and with the help of Java, people should be able to see the image and ramp up or down the exposure to see most of the bright and dark areas of the image as they like. I've done most of this correctly by now and as I checked by the tutorial given by Christian Bloch in his website www.hdrlabs.com, but until this very moment, the thing did not work properly. Java loads, but no image shows except of a red rectangle! Before this time, I already had a problem with the software itself because it was crashing and closing down. The problem was fixed by replacing the desired file for convert in the folder of the software itself! Thanks Blochi!

Planning for some big day tomorrow. Well, not much of a big day but it is a day for me. Planning to capture 3 labs or rooms in our center and make them into QTVR. Hopefully, these QTVRs will be used in the website of our center as an interactive material. For the time being, I've settled my mind on 2 rooms so far, but no idea what the third one should be. And just for the fun of it, I've taken some pictures of myself yesterday and started to play around in Photoshop with them, trying to make out some diabolic. Well, not going to post the image here anyway!

Literature-wise now. After doing my last one, One Day in May, I've started to write some words for another one. The problem is, I lost interest so fast that I always prefer to do my homework all at once instead of gathering the words from here and there and writing them down, and this is what is happening now. I left my Notepad window open in my PC at home with six lines only, and the flow stopped for some reason which I can't remember. I hope I would be able to push myself to write more to it and not just close it down and forget about it. It has been, and still, a weird time that I'm not sure if it is related to some aspect of my life or it is a natural consequence for my age by now. It is a strong desire to live back my teenage. I do believe that I didn't get much out of this age for myself back then, and it all comes in some passion for the old songs, but I don't mean the so-old ones, but those that I used to listen to when I was at that age and up until my early 20s.
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1201. then Birbuár continued his talk with Alexander
1202. and this he said: O good king things here are different,
1203. I do not know what is the summer or winter, or spring or autumn!
1204. we plant here and harvest all the time,
1205. and time is counted by the passing of light and darkness,
1206. while months are counted by the moons of the sky
1207. some people have shadow here, and some do not,
1208. it all depends on how much dark side they have,
1209. did you not see that I have a dark black shadow?
1210. it is all because I was once a wicked man,
1211. and it is time to clean my soul and take a rest,
1212. and I hope the Khaznútím will not be severe with me,
1213. as for your question about the light and darkness,
1214. the light is the light! when darkness is not there, it is here!
1215. then Alexander went silent for few moments to think
1216. he verily knows now that it is a different world than his
1217. where the laws of nature does not sound natural in this
1218. thus he expected to see more abnormal things
1219. all of these thoughts raced in his mind all at once
1220. then he raised his head and asked Birbuár
1221. "and now my friend, what are you going to do,
1222. and what am I going to do in this world?"
1223. Birbuár replied: as for me, I shall do whatever Khaznútím orders,
1224. as for you, I advise you to see Shdáyur by the morning

Sunday, April 19, 2009

The Machine is ON...

Continuing the work with Alexander's story. I finally fixed the recording problem, and seems I have to record in a 16bit resolution which makes the file larger. Seems all the roads lead me to be using Flash capabilities for the myth section in the webpage. I am almost ready for making the first part of the "Alexander Chornicles". The chronicles will be divided into 6 "books" (i.e. 6 parts or stories).
1. the book of Beginning (Bshíthá)
2. the book of Geltan (Géltán)
3. the book of Bulughman (Bulughman)
4. the book of Zimura (Zimúrá)
5. the book of Hoshea (Hosha'a)
6. the book of Ayvar (Ayvár)

and as I promised before, here is a sample of the Ayvarith, after applying some effects of course.

I worked out a simple schematic diagrams for the classifications of conlangs in the world of Daynur...

The first group is the Ayvaric languages (click to enlarge):



















The second group is the Galaic (click to enlarge):




















The third group is the Bulghaic (click to enlarge):




















The fourth group is the Zimuraic (clik to enlarge):




















The fifth and final group is the Barbaric (click to enlarge):

Friday, April 10, 2009

Clogged With Thoughts...

Although, usually, I don't write anything within the story of Alexander in weekends, but today I made some lines in the 6th part. Not much compared to other days maybe, but I had some time to write some, yet not much inspiration for the miserable situation that I usually live every weekend.
Despite all that I grapped a paper and started to sketch some outlines. I began to classify the languages of the tribes and kingdoms mentioned in the map of the Daynur world.
The prime outline is divided into 5 categories of languages: Ayvaric, Galaic, Bulughiac, Zimuraic and Barbaric. I'm still looking in the map for the time being as this sketch might change later on. I guess I will have to do it and organize it properly by some other programs here and there.
I will try to publish this categorization somehow later on, maybe via Omniglot if Mr Ager accepted that. Beside this classification, I made a small chart as well to organize my work with putting a systematic change to the dialects in each main group of languages.
In the meantime as well, I'm putting the first corner stones for the upcoming conscript. I didn't specify yet for which tribe it would be, but the language shall be Ayvaric and derived from the Ayvarith, with a change in the vowel system and some consonants.
I think I will start recording the previous translations of the past parts of Alexander's story and put them as mp3s (or PCM Wav files) to make them ready for some action. I wonder if I have the power to work with Flash again!
We'll see!