Re: Phonology and Morphology

On 21.12.2007 Mark J. Reed wrote:
 > It's just a case of different people's brains working
 > different ways. Some people seem to be bottomless
 > repositories of knowledge - useful or otherwise -

And some of us can remember a lot but have no index function
to their memories, and so can't retrieve their knowledge at
will but only at random. We will seem 'stupid' at times
because we don't remember the right thing at the right time.
For all my memory of detail I admire people who can go
through an intellectual work from point A to point B and at
all times keep a birds-eye 'map' of the intellectual
landscape they go through. To me it takes a great effort to
keep such a dicipline -- or rather it takes an inordinate
amount of dicipline to emulate that mode of operation. I'm
more of an intellectual squirrel, running around aimlessly,
save for following the scent of a particular kind of nut, if
you take my meaning.

A look at my work at FrathWiki is most revealing. Maerik
atypically came to me in a flash complete with building
instructions, and then its grammar isn't that
revolutionary...

Luckily translation isn't that intellectual: you start at
page 1 -- or more likely page 50, an old trick of the trade
-- and then trudge on till you've chewed through it all. I
actually have to keep a register of how I've translated
terms so that I won't translate them differently at
different points -- or rather I get lists of standard term
translations to follow, most often.


/BP 8^)>
--
Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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   "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient
   à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil
   ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*,
   c'est qu'elles meurent."           (Victor Hugo)