Sunday, October 24, 2010

OUTLINE for upcoming posts

I. Introduce measures with Illustrate Text from Modern Arabic about Napoleon's march through North Africa.


II.  Mediterranean Memory Palace with 10 countries West to East on the South and Eastern Shoreline as mental pegs for the consonant patterns of the 10 basic measures.

III.  Senda's full conjugations for the exemplary verbs used in the Illustrative Text.

IV. A 26 part Latin American Memory Palace for memorizing the 13 pronouns and 13 corresponding verb affixes.

V.  An exploration of the Verbal Noun and the concept of time in Arabic through the 3rd chapter of Ecclesiastes.

VI. An exploration of Al-Farabi's concept of Causality in a sample text and a discussion of Wharf's Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis.

VII.  An exploration of Al-Farabi's concept of the human mind, what drives it, and how that world-view might help in understanding the measures.

VIII.  An exploration of Al-Farabi's description of what the names of God should be and a discussion of how that relates to common proper names in Arabic and ideals for behavior in Arab culture.

IX. The 99 divine names set to the capital cities and major landscape features of the 50 United States.

X.  Common Proverbs in Arabic for each letter of the Arabic alphabet set to memory scenes in each country looping around the non-Mediterranean coastline of Africa.

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