NotW #17: Markì

[`Eylan Ayfalulukanä]

I'll echo prrton: Seykxel sì nitram! ulte IRAYO!!!

From reading this, it sounds like we have a lot in common. I'm 49, like technical stuff, and am just learning to play a wood flute (lu ke ean). And we both like cats, and apparently a lot. I would agree with Dreamlight that cats are the highest form of life on earth (and 'my' lions, tiger and liger would agree)-- everything else is food!

So, I will say Ngay/Tsleng/Ngay to your Ngay/Tsleng questions.

A Na`vi-themed fireworks display would be truly cool. And I bet the Na`vi themselves would really like fireworks. In a world as rich as theirs, I bet the makings of the components of fireworks are very common there. (And Unobtanium, apparently being an alkaline earth element, would probably have a striking flame color like other alkaline earths, such as Barium.)

[Toruk Makto]

Fascinating concept. I wonder if unobtainium forms a chloride salt?

[`Eylan Ayfalulukanä]

Fascinating concept. I wonder if unobtainium forms a chloride salt?

According to the ASG, Unobtanium has an atomic number of 120, which should put it in column 2 of the periodic table. Other elements here readily form chloride salts (Calcium chloride, and I know barium, strontium and magnesium are all used in fireworks), so I don't see why unobtanium wouldn't form a chloride salt.

[Prrton]

Fascinating concept. I wonder if unobtainium forms a chloride salt?

According to the ASG, Unobtanium has an atomic number of 120, which should put it in column 2 of the periodic table. Other elements here readily form chloride salts (Calcium chloride, and I know barium, strontium and magnesium are all used in fireworks), so I don't see why unobtanium wouldn't form a chloride salt.

Sounds like the most expensive 'Rrtan fireworks display EVER! 

  ...I'll take 2, please.

As your biggest fan, more questions. Time is running out...

1) Is there any "indigenous culture" of which you are most fond in some way? Why? What makes them a good conceptual fit for your interests?

2) Where is the farthest place from your home you've ever actually traveled? (This is relevant to the home of the time, so it may have happened when you were not living where you live now.) Why did you go there and what was most interesting about the place you visited?

3) What is the most delicious thing you've ever eaten? (If it's your own B-B-Q, that'll have to be exempt... the NEXT most delicious thing, please.) 

4) What was/is the name of the sweetest cat of whom you were/are the guardian? Same question for the most intelligent. What are some examples of their behavior that assisted you in your decision-making process?

Pereiey (ay)oe...

[Toruk Makto]

Sounds like the most expensive 'Rrtan fireworks display EVER!  

 ...I'll take 2, please.

As your biggest fan, more questions. Time is running out...

1) Is there any "indigenous culture" of which you are most fond in some way? Why? What makes them a good conceptual fit for your interests?

If you didn't have to pin me down on any one in particular, my broadest interest is in the Amazon tribes in general and perhaps the Yanomani or the Waura as the most interesting to me. Lately the Waura and other Xingu River tribes have gotten my attention since they have been at the front of the news due to the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam that the Brazilian government wants to build that will flood most of their ancestral lands. James Cameron has been down there to campaign against it.
This entire region of the world began to fascinate me from seeing it in the National Geographic magazines that my parents subscribed to. A lot of my adult life has been devoted to advancing and expanding the technology and accessibility of all forms of communication. I spent a lot of time building rather remote earth stations for telephone and internet access in central and south America in the 90s and got to know some of the people of the cloud forests of Costa Rica and the rain forests of Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama. Although I have never focused on languages (until recently), any form of passing information or ideas from one person to another fascinates me. Although I have never made it down that far, the Amazon region people have the most amazing and varied methods of communicating and have to be my favorites.


2) Where is the farthest place from your home you've ever actually traveled? (This is relevant to the home of the time, so it may have happened when you were not living where you live now.) Why did you go there and what was most interesting about the place you visited?

 The farthest would have to be Angel Falls in Venezuela. I was in Venezuela building some earth stations for satellite links for long distance phone service. I went to the falls because I had seen it on TV and had the opportunity to see it in person. It is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. The water of the falls are almost clouds before landing. Remembering the rain forests and rivers of that area may be one of the reasons Kifkey Eywa Evengä has an almost eerily familiar feel to me.


3) What is the most delicious thing you've ever eaten? (If it's your own B-B-Q, that'll have to be exempt... the NEXT most delicious thing, please.)  

 Ok then, the NEXT most delicious thing (oy!) would be the murgh malai over rice at the Indian food restaurant near our house. Pxasula tìyom!


4) What was/is the name of the sweetest cat of whom you were/are the guardian? Same question for the most intelligent. What are some examples of their behavior that assisted you in your decision-making process?

 Her name is Sabiya. If I weren't on the road and had access to my computer at home I would post up a pic of her. Little Sabi Cat is the best cat ever. She loves hugs and snuggles. The most intelligent is probably Sterling, a domestic short hair that is occasionally too clever for his own good! He has figured out how to get in cabinets and that the food is in a bag that will succumb to claws when enough effort is given.


Pereiey (ay)oe...

[Prrton]

Sounds like the most expensive 'Rrtan fireworks display EVER!  

 ...I'll take 2, please.

As your biggest fan, more questions. Time is running out...

1) Is there any "indigenous culture" of which you are most fond in some way? Why? What makes them a good conceptual fit for your interests?

Yanomani or the Waura

2) Where is the farthest place from your home you've ever actually traveled? (This is relevant to the home of the time, so it may have happened when you were not living where you live now.) Why did you go there and what was most interesting about the place you visited?

Angel Falls in Venezuela.

3) What is the most delicious thing you've ever eaten? (If it's your own B-B-Q, that'll have to be exempt... the NEXT most delicious thing, please.)  

the murgh malai over rice at the Indian food restaurant near our house. Pxasula tìyom!

4) What was/is the name of the sweetest cat of whom you were/are the guardian? Same question for the most intelligent. What are some examples of their behavior that assisted you in your decision-making process?

Sabiya

Txantsan nìwotx!! Nìmun ngaru seiyi irayo!

I'm VERY jealous that you've seen Angel Falls and Sabiya is such a GREAT name. I can't wait to see a photo (some day).

Travel home safely!

[Toruk Makto]

I'm home!
Guess who was waiting to see me?   



Sabiya!  And there is a little bit of the kxetse end of Max at the top...

[Le'eylan]

Nawwww So cute!!

[Prrton]

I'm home!
Guess who was waiting to see me?   

Spoiler

Sabiya!  And there is a little bit of the kxetse end of Max at the top...

She's adorable! Indeed! And Max would appear to be a Himalayan at partial (ehem) glance. 

Thanks for sharing.

[Dreamlight]

I'm home!
Guess who was waiting to see me?   



Sabiya!  And there is a little bit of the kxetse end of Max at the top...

Ooh, beautiful kitteh!  *pet*

[Toruk Makto]

 Well it is Sunday night,, and my NotW run comes to an end.

The answers to the true false question are:
1: True
2: False
3: True

 Thanks to everyone that helped make this a great week for me. I look forward to continuing a long and rewarding relationship with my brothers and sisters on LearnNavi.org as we move forward with this great language.

 I also extend my thanks and admiration to the artists that brought us Avatar and the one that started it all, James Cameron.

 However, my greatest thanks are reserved for Karyu Pawl, without whom there would be no lì'fya leNa'vi as we know it today, and without whom we would not be here.

   'Ivong Na'vi!



 - ta Markì