Pelota Maya | Spanish Language Blog Posted on 28. Jul, 2011 by Magda in Entertainment, Holidays, Spanish Culture ¿Sabíais que los mayas solían jugar a la pelota? Aunque no estoy segura de si me gustaría formar parte de un equipo en alguno de sus juegos. Dejad que os explique por qué: No se conoce el origen de este juego, ni las reglas exactas. Igual que en el fútbol hoy día, no se podía tocar la pelota con la mano, ni tampoco con el pie. Debido a las pelotas tan duras que usaban, los jugadores llevaban taparrabos y protecciones de cuero para los brazos y caderas, que pueden apreciarse en algunos murales mayas y aztecas hoy día. No se conoce con claridad el simbolismo del juego. Y esa es la razón por la que yo nunca jugaría… ¡no soy nada buena jugando a la pelota! Did you know that Mayans used to play with ball games? The origin of this game in unknown, as well as the precise rules. The symbolism of the game is not clearly known. That’s the reason why I would never play… I’m not good at ball games! Tags: history, mexico
Pleistocenese (JBR Palaeolang) / PREFACE – First Words It seems to me that attempts to imagine the evolutionary origin of speech never make enough of an effort to account for the particular kind of language we've ended up with. Alternatives may be far from obvious, but to demonstrate that they do exist, here's an illustrative “what‐if”. It also happens to shed some light on a question first raised by Arthur Dent: why are cavemen so bad at Scrabble? This page is a companion to the ones on Futurese and Alternese; readers may also wish to compare and contrast my notes on SF Xenolinguistics and SF Chronophysics. Table of Contents PREFACE – First Words PALAEOLINGUISTICS – Evolving Sciences INNATENESS – Early Talkers PROTOLANGUAGE – Origin of Speeches NEANDERTHALESE – Conlang of the Cave Bear PHONOLOGY – The Voice of the Mousterians GRAMMAR – Flint‐Axe Syntax EXAMPLES – Towards Babel HOLOCENESE – Scrabble for Survival // PALAEOLINGUISTICS – Evolving Sciences /// INNATENESS – Early Talkers [Cancel] [<Back] [Next>] [Finish]
El viaje de la primera persona que pisó América Cristóbal Colón obviamente no descubrió América. Cuando llegó con sus carabelas en 1492 ya estaba habitada de cabo a rabo. Los científicos llevan décadas devanándose los sesos para averiguar a quién le corresponde el honor de ser el primero en pisar el continente y dos nuevos estudios arrojan ahora luz sobre el enigma. Uno de ellos, liderado por el genetista Eske Willerslev, de la Universidad de Copenhague (Dinamarca), detalla el itinerario seguido por los auténticos padres de América. Los primeros valientes que se atrevieron a explorar el continente partieron de la actual Siberia hace como mucho 23.000 años, durante el Último Máximo Glacial, una época en la que el norte de Europa se encontraba cubierto por completo por el hielo. Tras ese paréntesis en Beringia, la población de origen siberiano habría saltado a América en una sola oleada, avanzando hacia el sur y separándose en dos grupos hace unos 13.000 años, coincidiendo con el derretimiento de los hielos.
Futurese (JBR Precoglang) Justin B Rye 2003–2013 (now fully Unicodified) Predicting the future of the English language is rather easy, in the short term. The odds are, over the next few decades its New World dialects are going to gain increasing global dominance, accelerating the demise of thousands of less fortunate languages but at long last allowing a single advertisement to reach everybody in the world. (From the Colloquy of Aelfric.) FOREWORD – the above LANGUAGE SF – Futurese Bibliography LANGUAGE CHANGE – Progress and Decay LANGUAGE TRENDS – Causes and Effects INTERMISSION – Notation and Terminology EARLY AMERICAN – 2100 AD MIDDLE AMERICAN – 2400 AD CLASSICAL AMERICAN – 2700 AD LATE AMERICAN – 3000 AD EXAMPLES – Words and Phrases 2013 POSTSCRIPT: for its tenth anniversary (we're one percent of the way there already, folks!) LANGUAGE SF – Futurese Bibliography Before I start developing a future history of my own I'll run through a quick survey of the existing literature. Next Year's Slang Galactic Empires
SF Xenolinguistics (JBR Primer) — eep opp ork ah-ah — Justin B Rye — ash nazg durbatulûk — TABLE OF CONTENTS — borag thungg — FANTASY EXOTIC TONGUES – An Introduction If you're here chasing the search-string +fantasy +exotic +tongues, then I'm afraid you've probably come to the wrong place. This article is a companion to my guides to SF Chronophysics and Exobiology, dealing with another random feature of fictional world design. By the way, when I say SF I don't mean to exclude Fantasy. — klaatu barada nikto — LET'S SPEAK ALIEN – In Ten Easy Lessons Ever wondered how all those traditional space-opera and epic-fantasy races – the pig-faced warriors, the smug bumheads, and all the rest – came up with their wonderfully clichéd alien vocabularies? Sounds (and sequences of sounds) common in English are still possible in Alienese, but much less common – there are no exotic alien worlds called Stritty or Thudgewundle. Initial K is especially popular (Kazon, Klendathu, Krell, K'kree). So, is there anything that can't vary?
Shaka, When the Walls Fell In one fascinating episode, Star Trek: The Next Generation traced the limits of human communication as we know it—and suggested a new, truer way of talking about the universe. The opening scene of “Darmok,” the second episode of the fifth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. (Paramount) On stardate 45047.2, Jean-Luc Picard leads the crew of the Enterprise in pursuit of a transmission beacon from the El-Adrel system, where a Tamarian vessel has been broadcasting a mathematical signal for weeks. The aliens, also known as the Children of Tama, are an apparently peaceable and technologically advanced race with which the Federation nevertheless has failed to forge diplomatic relations. The obstacle, as Commander Data puts it: “communication was not possible.” Picard exudes optimism as his starship courses through subspace. DATHON, the Tamarian captain: Rai and Jiri at Lungha. FIRST OFFICER (laughing): Kadir beneath Mo Moteh. As morning breaks, Dathon rouses Picard.