Aodh Macs Blog

    Figure 1:   A tongue that I quickly sketched, and then edited in photoshop. The Ancient-Greek 1st-and-2nd-declension adjective: πολύς, πολλή, πολύ , or, when transliterated: ‘polús, pollḗ, polú,’ means: ‘many,’ .  The Ancient-Greek 1 st -declension feminine noun: ἡ γλῶσσα, τῆϛ γλώσσης, or, when transliterated: ‘hē glȭssa, tē̃s glṓssēs’ means: ‘the tongue’ .  In the Attic dialect, the spelling of: ‘hē glȭssa,’ is: ἡ γλῶττα, τῆϛ γλώττης , or, when transliterated: ‘hē glȭtta, tē̃s glṓttēs’ . We derive our English noun: ‘polyglot,’ , which is a speaker of many languages, from our combining of the Ancient-Greek adjective: ‘polús,’ which means: ‘many’ , with the Ancient-Greek noun: ‘glȭtta’ , which means: ‘tongue’ .

Figure 1:  I drew this pencil sketch of Aristotle. I consider Aristotle to be the great grandfather of computer Science.  To elaborate upon this is beyond the scope of this blogpost.  However, I consider this to be a huge motivating factor for my learning Greek:  should I ever complete a PhD in Computer Science, then this could make for an excellent subject for a thesis.  I hope to be able to read Aristotle in the original Greek, one day. I have read the philosophical novel, Atlas Shrugged  (1957) by Ayn Rand.  There is an Aristotelian theme running through the book.  Chapters are named after ideas from this philosopher. The Book is divided into three parts.  Part III is entitled: A is A .  This is a reference to the law of identity.  I believe that the law of identity, were it to be expressed in the Greek of Aristotle, would be: ἄλφα ἔστιν ἄλφα , or, when transliterated: álpha éstin...

I drew this Rifle Scope in SVG. Should one construct a thick circle around a blank cartesian plane, then he gets a great rifle scope! One could employ - or rather deploy! - this image in a browser shooting game. I hope to begin experimenting with building simple browser games, shortly. ...