Here is the right hand portion of a user interface input controller I designed: The left hand side is symmetrically arranged. Right and left input controllers, when combined together, are called the Deckastick. It’s 10 joysticks with eight directions each,… Read more…
Disambiguate- media:medic::____________:medical My gut instinct is “media-related”, but that seems overly complex. “Medium” is for “aether”, or “the size between small and large”. “Medial” is for “in the middle”. “Mediary” is possible, but probably conflicts as a result of relation… Read more…
The Arabic language has signifier grammer for number. That means you can tell from the affix whether a word is representing ONE, TWO, or MANY objects. There is even affix grammar to describe whether an object is male or female,… Read more…
Have you ever tried reading Arabic backwards with the pitch and stresses switched? It makes more sense if you invert the semantics while you’re at it. What I would give for a proper corpus to test this with. After that,… Read more…
I’ve recently convinced myself that Japanese and Arabic share a relation. While the two cultures are geographically far-flung, the semantic meanings in Arabic of the Japanese words for counting are difficult to ignore, and interesting to explore. Below is a… Read more…
Counterclockwise from bottom-right (image has been mirrored and flipped upside-down and recopied by some unknown stranger): Cow, Elephant. Mouse, Dog, Spider.