Binary meter ontology

= 0/1 ========================================

unstressed 'dit' (a, the, is, of)
stressed 'dah'

= 0, 00, 000, 0000... ========================================
= 1, 11, 111, 1111... ========================================

tiptoeing vs stomping


= 00/01/10/11 ========================================

00: pyrrhic
01: iamb
10: trochee
11: spondee: blackboard, inside, clambake, flophouse

= ...010101... ========================================

limping

= 000/001/010/011/100/101/110/111 ========================================

000: tribrach [terminology]

001: anapest

010: amphibrach: Alaska, Hawaii, Kentucky, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

011: bacchic

100: dactyl: profligate, vegetable, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Oregon, Washington

101: cretic: Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Tennessee

110: antibacchic: flapdoodle

111: molossus: brouhaha, Istanbul

= ...0011001100... ========================================

= 0000/0001/0010/0011/0100/0101/0110/0111/1000/1001/1010/1011/1100/1101/1110/1111 ============

0000: proceleusmatic

0001: paeon4: Beethoven's 5th, baba ganoush

0010: paeon3: economics, politician, departmental, condescension, borborygmus, perspicacious, celebrated

0011: minor ionic

0100: paeon2: adrenaline, accordion, agrarian, amygdala, automaton, beatitude, carcinogen, contemplative, contiguous, copernican, criterion, decreasingly, dirigible, geography, competitive, microscopy, misogynist, rebarbative, synecdoche, Connecticut, New Mexico, coincidence, phenomenon, mythology, solicitor, eternity, experience, experiment, maturity, extremities, ecology, humility, mysterious, impossibly, commodities

0101: di-iamb: contrariwise, aperitif, Virginia Woolf, plutonium

0110: antipast: dehydrated

0111: epitrite 1

1000: paeon 1: miscellany, horticulture, consummately, deviances, confiscated, aliases, obfuscated, enervating, meaninglessness, stimulated

1001: choriamb: bibliophile, cavalryman, catamaran, hullabaloo, tiddlywinks, Kalamazoo, nevertheless

1010: ditrochee [xkcd]: armageddon, denotation, alderwoman, bilirubin, macaroni, mashed potatoes, moleskine, Alabama, Arizona, California, Carolina, Colorado, Indiana, ?Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, N/S Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Zapatista, premonition, belladonna, Paganini, politician, understanding, generations, polyester, resurrected, anaconda, godforsaken, helicopter, perforated, undercover, Pagliacci, education, self-indulgence, self-denial, dramatizing, sentimental, sentimental, comprehending, temporary, appaloosas, geometric, overseer, understanding, superficial, repetitious, satisfaction, complications, overflowing, independence, mathematic, liberation, cinematic, inspiration, affectations, fascination, pornographic, benefactors, everpresent, reservation, everlasting

1011: epitrite2

1100: major ionic: deprogramming, asexual

1101: epitrite3

1110: epitrite4: melancholy

1111: dispondee

= five ========================================

00010: organisation

00100: electricity, demonology, discombobulate

01000: involuntary, constabulary, apothecary

01001: deteriorate

01010: ?Louisiana, participation, apotheosis, Barack Obama, manipulation, imagination, imagination, illumination

10010: magnification, contradistinction, juxtaposition, heterodoxy, flibbertigibbet, Sacagawea, legalization, reincarnations, Spiritus Sanctus

10100: incompatible, possibility, appendectomy, abacterial, haberdashery, oligopoly, trabajabamos, Ernest Hemingway, opportunities, unbelievable, aborigine, territorial, insecurity, horizontally, curiosity, multiplicity, immortality, anonymity, Michelangelo, Ethiopian, subterranean

10101: Edgar Allen Poe, recapitulate

11000: decriminalise

11010: inconsequential, unsympathetic, decomposition, defenestration, dodecahedron, homegrown tomatoes, Constantinople, Lee Harvey Oswald, Make Way for Ducklings, Smooth Operator

11100: String Cheese Incident

= ========================================

000010: idiosyncratic

000100: octogenarian [cite], buckminsterfullerene [cite], antediluvian [cite]

010010: detachable penis

010100: phantasmagorical

011101: the kid is not my son

100010: surgical procedure

100100: verisimilitude, calculability, Mesopotamia

101000: parenthetically

101010: onomatopoeia, tintinnabulation

101100: brigadier general [cite]

110100: gunboat diplomacy

0100100: epistemological

0101010: medulla oblongata

10101010: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1101111: Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer

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100100011: this little piggy went to market

10100100: endoplasmic reticulum

001000100: phosphatidylethanolamines

010101010: Emancipation Proclamation

0100100100: electroencephalographically

1000100100: immunoelectrophoretically

01001001001: m-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i

10010000101: Neither a borrower nor a lender be

10110110101: ethylenediaminetetraacetates

100010010010: antidisestablishmentarianism

10101010101010: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

0101010101010101010: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

 
 
 
 
 
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Synching via natural language

at our current primitive level
of electronic database evolution
synching has to obsess on timestamps
so as to avoid clobbering
newer values with older

implying a discourse pattern/
data format like
(topic, olddate, oldvalue, newdate, newvalue, comments)

but in human communication
everything else is normally subsumed
into (newvalue)
with even the topic
cited as obliquely as possible

fast bright hip slangy
as opposed to
dull literal prosaic discursive

for discourse is first of all
a status display
omitting everything 'beneath' you




alternatively
real human discourse
is almost entirely
trivial to the point of irrelevance

tom vs katie
britney's shaved head
sports and weather after this

because discourse is secondarily
just a social glue
like apes' grooming

with silences correspondingly awkward
ideally filled with
anything effervescent
style before content
eg even tall tales




on the Net
we can subscribe
to newsfeeds on topics we choose
from sources we choose
(someday) at levels of detail we choose

conventionally blogged in reverse order
so we don't have to keep explicit track
of the last item read
in each feed




humans also routinely
sin against truth
preferring prejudicial
'target values'
to actual values
consequently ignored

 
 
 
 
 
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Discourse patterns synching spreadsheets now

two rhetoric books i'm finding useful:

"a theory of discourse" (kinneavy 1971)
"patterns for a purpose" (clouse 2003)

the latter proposes eight basic essay-patterns
(and i'm now substituting
spreadsheets for
yesterday's databases
so we can 'synch'
rules/formulae too)

1. description (database dump without chrnological sorting)
   
2. narration (ditto with chronological sorting)
   
3. exemplification (generalised rule/formula with descriptive or narrative examples)
   
4. process analysis (synching rules/formulae for future applications)
   
5. comparison-contrast (explicitly synching two spreadsheet regions)
   
6. cause-and-effect analysis (synching rules/formulae for past applications)
   
7. classification and division (synching the vocabulary for descriptions of ranges)
   
8. definition (synching a single vocabulary concept)
   

kinneavy tries to survey
rhetorical patterns at every level

some micropatterns (cf recent post Discourse as lists):

(short, long) eg synopsis/abstract followed by fleshed-out presentation

(long, short) eg summary at end

(parts, whole) eg (A, B, +, A+B)

(whole, parts) usually short-whole followed by longer-parts

(not-A, B) standard debate micropattern

(A, not-A) fair and balanced

(zoom-out, zoom-in) eg panorama with gradual increase in detail

(zoom-in, zoom-out) novels usually grab you via a closeup they only gradually contextualise

(hook, line) general attention-grabbing

(light, heavy) lead with a joke

(aux, main, aux) eg webpages where bodytext is surrounded by html-junk

(metadata, data) incl eg (date, title, byline)

(abstract, concrete) or (general, particular)

(old, new) cf (not-A, B)

(A?B) exploring uncertain relationship

(claim, proof)

(try, try, succeed)

 
 
 
 
 
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