"mendeleev" poems
August 10th, you seemed so distant
Not quite as distant as the barrel of one gun
The gun that fired the shot that would stun
The scientific world, from Rutherford to Niels Bohr
To find out esteemed fellow scientist Moseley was no more
But before that, in 1913
X-ray spectra was naught more than a dream
Before diffraction through crystals became the truth
The wavelengths needed a meaning, and there was proof
You developed a mathematical system without flaw
One so great, it was named "Moseley's law"
Mendeleev had the right idea, but not a plan
Could not arrange the elements the way that you now can
Without you, my sir, we would not have had this premium
To enjoy the elements technetium, hafnium, promethium, and rhenium
These gaps that like stars littered the periodic table
Were filled with ease, and the cosmos became stable
You had set the foundation for crystallography of x-rays
A method of determining arrangement that is still used in modern days
The first machines in use were those for which you had the design
But their widespread use you could not see as there simply was no time
For during a battle, as you made the phone set run
A bullet took your grace away, a scientist dying young
Oct 17, 2012
Oct 17, 2012 at 4:21 PM UTC
*now you thought arithmetic was hard... they really omitted telling us a clear deciphering of diacritical marks - kept the advantage. it's not really an area of expertise, but an area of clear interest worthy of a spider-web corner, something to feel cosy in... for god sake, even the Greeks started using diacritical distinctions on their beautiful alphabet... the English left theirs in squalor... ******* get moving! or you won't get rid of illiteracy in your people you sadistic ************* because, i mean, with the appropriation of diacritic you can teach people strong unitary measurements applicability of encoded sounds, that's what i learnt from Polish... e.g.: Ł (wha-wha Jimi Hendrix peddle voodoo child - ń is an n but pinching your tongue internally - kabbalah is the anatomy of the mouth and the nasal cavity, in kabbalah you have the organs teeth tongue nose mouth breath to deal with, expedition into vibrations... ó is just an aesthetic alternative to u... so the word looks pretty... you need these marks, otherwise you're first teaching people the alphabet, then you're teaching them syllables... great twigs and all... then you shove a tree into their eyes, a custard, an entire word... no wonder you have a syllabus (origin syllable) to teach them the atomic scaling of things: tree you teach as e e r t and you teach onomatopoeia as a a e i m n o o o o p t... and that's hardly a Mendeleev rational (French, prolonged a syllable cutting on -tio- prolonged n with -al, using diacritics: rātion̄al).
**diacritics - also synonymous with punctuation,
syllable punctuation, not between words
but inside them.***
as a Latin man, i'm still stuck on
deciphering the barbarism,
what barbarism you ask?
the diacritical marks added to our
alphabet - it's the last stronghold
of the literate class - i'm sitting here
wondering how to use them,
i have a couple i'm certain off,
but others just seem too impromptu,
too wobbly in how they're used,
given people cheat, gamble, and lie,
i'm not sure some of these marks
are properly explained in schools,
actually, i don't think any of them are...
not to my knowledge, with the English
language stark naked and it's
many particularities of grapheme hidden,
i could list you the oddities, but there
are too many unique examples to go
through; i mean, you could write
Joyce's Finnegans Wake on 20 pages if
the diacritical marks were included
and not this excessive spelling to capture
these stresses of accent.
May 16, 2016
May 16, 2016 at 10:54 AM UTC
*heretical grammar: the finite article is defined by ego... the infinite article is defined by god... **** your Freudian trinity.*
when you first learn a language, you are taught the language
in order to synthesise it...
it takes about 20 years of having synthesised the language
to then analyse it, and analysis of an acquired tongue
is a comforting walk through the halls of
Shiva kissing Hades like Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev;
you turn toward the way in which the language is
programmed, silenced, encoded, you check
the orthography, what's missing... i'm astounded to see
how no one spotted missing diacritical marks in english,
for fuck's sake... the greeks are even using them!
no wonder england became such a ******** after the reigning
power on a global scale... this is a Copernican gosh!
it'll reign for some time; well, we know that Cyrillic is
the evolved form of Greek, that paved the way for
Mendeleev - i guess straining the sound encryption will
make you see things differently, or as the English say
in Essex: the H might as well be a surd.
May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016 at 11:21 AM UTC