Miranei word of the day - wargr

This week will be all about adverbs. What's an adverb? click here Lolly, lolly, lolly

In Miranei, all adverbs are suffixes to the verbs they modify.

wargr (adv.) very (pronc. WAHR gr)

fun usage:

I feel goodwargr today.

Jerry, you are a badwargr man! Badwargrwargr!


cheers


Kurt

Miranei Sunday Secret - The Second Path

The Second of the Eight Paths of Wisdom


Compassion


Until you can see the world through another's eyes, you are blind.




cheers


Kurt

Miranei Saturday - the zoo

valr - wolf

slen - fox

tolr - bird (general)

dafn - crow

erk - raven

nalg - boar

gakr - pig

sgre - snake

klet - turtle

brufr - frog

delbr - toad

polen - dodern (wooly rhinoceres)

kelm - auroch

baml - stauer (prehistoric deer)

merebrodr - dolphin

mawrdowr - shark

firm - fish (general)

yonte - salmon

frel - trout

râgnde - horse

óten - sea monster

darm - bear

kaprk - mountain goat

chaln - sheep

guld - beaver

bhelgr - badger

froln - skunk

labn - small fur bearing creature (general)

pilk - rat

wilg - mouse

cheers, 

Kurt

Miranei word of the day - When I'm 64

gádmlr (adj.) old (pronc.GAHD mler)

ungbr (adj.) young (pronc. UNG ber)

fun usage:

"Dude, you are so gádmlr. What are you like 32?"

"Yeah sure, whatever you ungbr fool."

cheers,

Kurt

Miranei Word of the Day - all you need is maefn

maefn (n. v.) love (pronc. MAY ehfn)

The elves of the Fifth Age have words for dislike and unwanted, but no word for hate.

fun usage:

Ioll maefn Krispy Kreme donuts. (I love Krispy Kreme donuts)

Iofi'iola maefn naskreim. (I will always love you) 

Cheers,

Kurt

Miranei Word of the Day - lep sav

Sorry, I was sick yesterday, so I missed out on the Miranei word of the day. Therefore today you get two:

lep (v.) can (pronc. lehp)

sav (v.) do (pronc. sahv)

fun usage:

Ioll lep wiggle my ears. Lep naskreim? Hínn? What lep naskreim sav? 

Cheers,

Kurt

Sunday Secret - The First Path of Wisdom

The First Path of the Eight Paths of Wisdom

The elves of Lanis had a philosophy that was complete enough to govern their every day lives, yet complex enough to be contemplated for the rest of their lives.

The Eight Paths of Wisdom were explained as concepts that you take into yourself and personalize. The Eight Paths begin outside of you, unformed, disorganized. As you travel the Eight Paths and master them, they converge inward until they meet in the center, like the radial lines of a Jaefa Smiota playing table, or a spider's web.

At the center, each of the Eight Paths becomes one. The teachings and precepts of one path should blend into newer, stronger, and more mysterious teachings and precepts, combining with other paths until all eight are one concept in the Master's heart and soul. Once mastered, the elves would teach in the Temple of the Lhalíi, you would be ready to become one with the Great Parent.



The First Path of Wisdom

Persistence

That which we do as habit becomes easier for us and shapes our lives, whether for good, like following the Eight Paths, becoming great strength, or for evil, becoming crippling weakness.





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Miranei Saturday - orrtek

orrtek (n.)  war, heartbreak (pronc. OR tek)

smiota (n.)  battle, argument (pronc. SMEE oh ta)

arsteg (n.)  fight, skirmish (pronc. ARS teg)

paricale (n.)  a unique elvish weapon as chronicled in The Archer From Kipleth. (pronc. (PAIR uh cale)

blendth (n.)  spear, arm (pronc. BLENDTH)

krenn (n.) sword (pronc. KREN)

eyká (n.) dagger (pronc. EEK aye-uh , VERY soft on the 'uh')

klardi (n.) armour, honesty (pronc. KLAR dee) 

sjogi (n.) companion, ally (pronc. SJOE gee)

skant - (n.) enemy, opportunity (pronc. SKANT) 

üd (n.) blood, ocean waters (pronc. you know how to pronounce an umlaut, right? no? click on this - ö)

eyapo (v.) lay waste, kill (pronc. EE yap oh)

herral (v.) destroy (pronc. HERR all)

hraga (v.) attack ( pronc. HRRAH gah)

nauk (v.) harm, hurt (pronc. NOWK)

límbre (v.) join, wed (pronc. LEHM breh)

fúltja (v.) help (n.) shoulder (pronc. FYOOLT jah)

pandré (v.) fight, (n.) frustration (pronc. PAN dreh)

anlag (v.) die (prnc. AHN lag)

langann (n.) death (pronc. LAHNG ahn)

cheers,

Kurt

Miranei word of the day - that old síod

síod (n.) black magic, evil magic (pronc. SAYEH ohd)

This noun, like all nouns in Miranei can be turned into an agent noun with 'ei'

Síodei (n.) Evil Magician (pronc. SAYEH ohd eye)


fun usage:

"Síod must be keeping my ancient maths teacher alive.'

"Don't you work your síod on me, you know I can't say 'no' to you."

cheers,

Kurt

Miranei word of the day - tell me what you mila, I'll tell you what I mila, a ziga zig ah

Mil - (verb) want (pronc. MEEL)

tense forms:

past - miln (pronc. MEELN)

present - mila (pronc. MEEL ah)

future - míli (pronc. MEHL ee) also means 'need'

fun usage:

"Ioll mila naskreim" (I want you)

"Ioll míli 13mm spanner, with which to hit you." (I need a 13mm spanner, with which to hit you)

cheers,

Kurt

Miranei word of the day - sanrfi(a) ganrfi(a) plánrfi(a)

sanrfi - (verb) would (pronc. SAN r fee)

ganrfi - (verb) could (pronc. GAHN r fee)

plánrfi - (verb) should (pronc. PLÁN r fee)

To make the á sound: hold your mouth like you're going to say 'oh' than pronounce the 'A' sound. It should sound like, please forgive me, PLoAWN, without an emphasis on the 'o' sound - say it easy and without effort and it will sound right.

And the 'r' without a vowel should be a VERY soft 'r' sound.

fun usage:

Sanrfi naskreim ilteri'anon omen? (Would you dance with me?) (ilteri - dance future tense)

Ioll plánrfi herrala naskreim, sae naslem ohn ornl finré. (I should destroy you, but you were once my friend.)

cheers,

Kurt

Miranei word of the day - you can get with ghen or you can get with ghatr

ghen - this (pronoun - pronc. GEHn)

ghatr - that (pronoun - pronc. GAH tr)

fun usage:

"I can not eat ghen. It makes me sick."

"I won't be embarrassed if you take off your shirt. What is ghatr!?"

cheers,

Kurt

Miranei word of the day - sogi'an lilem 1-17-11

sogi'an - hello  (pronc. SO gee an - shortened form of sjogi'anon - literally "with companionship")

lilem - good-bye (pronc. LEE LEM - shortened form of orllilemla - literally "until we are" shortened from the formal farewell)

Orllilemla Límbrenobar Lante'au'en Laefa  - formal farewell "Until we are joined once again in the Waters of Life."

cheers,

Kurt

Miranei Sunday Secret 1-16-11

In Miranei, when you want to address someone with affection, or mock affection, you had the suffix
"-chel".

fun usage:

"Husbandchel, I love you even when you haven't bathed." (real affection?)

"I will put on socks when I want to, Motherchel" (mock affection)

from The Archer From Kipleth:

“Are you tired of life, goastriechel ?” Baalenruud said with mock sadness. “You will be!” And then she laughed that gurgling, shrill laugh once more. 

cheers,

Kurt

Miranei numbers

Miranei numbers

The elves of the Fifth Age counted in what we today would know as Base 8 or Octal. They had zero to seven and counted much more efficiently.

first set of numbers:

0 - de

1- oh

2 - io

3 - ora

4 - na

5 - ku

6 - as

7 - te

There is no 8 or 9. The next number after te (7) is dede'i (pronc. deh DEH EE) or 00. The next sequence uses de'i as a suffix so:

00 - dede'i           (decimal 8)

10 - ohde'i                         (9)

20- iode'i                          (10)

30 - orade'i                       (11)

40 - nade'i                        (12)

50 - kude'i                         (13)

60 - asde'i                         (14)

70 - tede'i                          (15)

the next set of numbers

01 - de'oh'i                         (16)

11- ohoh'i                           (17)

21 - io'oh'i                           (18)

31 - ora'oh'i                         (19)

41 - na'oh'i                          (20)

51 - ku'oh'i                          (21)

61 - asoh'i                           (22)

71 - te'oh'i                           (23)

It may seem like the numbers are all out of whack, but they make sense when you think about it. Essentially the numbers stream their sets from left to right, the opposite of how we stream our human decimal system.

This also makes sense as Miranei is written right to left.

Now here's the thing. You humans can count no higher than ten on your fingers without resorting to using your toes or flashing your fingers to indicated the next set of numbers. The elves of the fifth age could count up to the equivalent of our 23 with their base 8 number system with just their two hands.

Here's how it works:

Hold out your hands, palms out. Close your hands into fists. Now hold up the pinky, or smallest finger of your right hand. That's de, or zero. Now count across, holding up fingers, but keeping your thumbs closed. When you have all eight fingers up (thumbs still closed) you're at te, the elvish seven.

Now comes the tricky part.

Close your fists. Now stick out your thumb on your right hand . That's de'i (pronc. DEH EE), the next set of numbers. What we know as the 'teens'. Still holding out that right thumb, stick out your pinky, or smallest finger of your right hand (it should look like the Hawaiin 'hang loose'). That's dede'i (pronc. deh DEH EE) the elvish 00, or our 8.

Now count out your fingers, going across from right to left. When you get to te'de'i (pronc. teh DEH EE) the elvish 70, human 15, your right hand should be completely open, right hand thumb out, and the left hand holding up all four fingers, but the left thumb still closed.

Ah, you see what's coming...

The next set of numbers comes with both thumbs extended. This is oh'i (pronc. OH EE) With both thumbs extended hold up your right pinky, or smallest finger, that's de'oh'i (pronc. deh OH EE) their 01, our 16.

Count across, until all fingers and thumbs are extended and you arrive at te'oh'i (pronc. teh OH EE) their 71, our 23.

You can continue on flashing combinations of fingers and thumbs to show the next set of numbers, but really, if you're getting up to numbers that high, wouldn't a piece of paper be better than your fingers?

A couple of cultural things; holding up your right hand pinky, or smallest finger while someone is speaking is VERY rude, in essence saying they are zero, or saying nothing.

Holding out the left hand thumb, fingers closed, fist level, hand NOT turned up fonzie style, indicates eternity, and the best something can achieve.

io also means 'eternal' or 'eternity' in Miranei. 

So in Miranei, 'two' also means 'infinity'... those romantic elves...

  

cheers,

Kurt

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Miranei word of the day - slar 1-14-2011

slar (adj.) little, (noun) jewelry (pronunc.) SLAR

fun usage:

"That punk slar just stole my sandwich!"

(adjectives always follow nouns, rather than precede them, like in english)

"She's so obscenely wealthy, she actually bought slar for her poodle!"

Cheers,

Kurt

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Miranei word of the day - finré 1-13-2011

finré (noun) friend, (verb) help (pronunciation - FIN reh, with the accent, slightly breathe out on the vowel)

Here's an elvish word that is both verb and noun. Of course you should know the verb tenses by now.

Fun usage: "Finré, finaskreim finré'i omen get rid of this old sofa?" (Friend, will you help me get rid of this old sofa?)

waitaminute, waitaminute I thought 'you' was 'naskreim'? Ah HA, this is 'will you' a form of 'be' which naskreimfi get on saturday....

cheers,

Kurt

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Miranei word of the day - gloen - 1-12-11

gloen (verb) - calm (pronunciation - GLO en)

as a verb, of course, the word has past, present and future tense.

gloenn - calmed (pronunciation - GLO ENn when there are two 'n's, slightly stress the second syllable and hold onto the sound a little longer)

gloena - be calm / present tense (pronunciation - GLO en ah)

gloeni - will calm / future tense (pronunciation - GLO en ee)

gloenthal - calming (pronunciation - GLO en thal)

fun usage:

"Gloena'a! Seinfeld is NOT being renewed. It was just a plot device on Curb Your Enthusiasm."
(remember 'a is the command suffix and it's just an extra 'ah' sound at the end.)

"The boy has finally gloenn down. Please, never give him an expresso again."

cheers,

Kurt


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Miranei word of the day 1-11-2011 - miran

miran - (verb) speak, converse, transport  (pronunciation - MIR ahn) always try to slightly trill your 'r'

mirann - speak past tense

mirana - speak present tense

mirani - speak future tense

miranei - speaker

Oh HO! that's also the name for the language! 'speaker' Well there you go.

cheers,

Kurt


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Miranei word of the day 1-10-2011 - ilter

ilter - dance  (pronunciation ILL ter)

iltern - danced (pronunciation (ILL tern)

iltera - dance (pronunciation ILL ter uh)

ilteri - will dance (pronunciation ILL ter ee)

ilterthal - dancing (pronunciation ILL ter thal)

ilterei - dancer (pronunciation ILL ter eye)

Miranei Sunday Secret 1-9-11

Miranei has no indefinite nor definite articles.

There is no 'the' nor 'a' nor 'an'.

If you wanted to say: "Hand me the hammer" in effect you would say "Hand me hammer".

If you wanted to say: "A bird is in the garden" instead you would say "Bird in garden".

But what if you wanted to use 'a' as a signifier of a single quantity?

If you wanted to say: "I only want an apple" instead you would use the number one "I only want one apple".

But, what are those Miranei numbers?

ahahahahaha.

You'll have to wait for the next Miranei Saturday when you'll get all the numbers and how to use them. And, I guarantee you will be amused.

cheers,

Kurt

Miranei Saturday - personal pronouns

You have more time on saturn'sday, or you should, so you have more time to learn Miranei.

Personal pronouns:

ioll- I      (EYE ohl)

omen - me     (O men)

Irnel - my/ mine     (EYE r nel)

naskreim - you     (NAS crime)

narmni - yours      (NARM nee)

tænduss - he       (TAYN dus)

tærmel - his         (TAYR mel)

tæsael - she        (TAYS ay el)

tæsmael - hers    (TAYS may el)

anrúkk - it          (AN rook)   (double k means the k is just barely voiced)

anrmnkur - its     (AN r m n cur) simply keep the mouth closed for consonant syllables without vowel combinations. But quickly gloss over the sounds. It should sound musical and light, not hard or like mumbling.)

cheers,

Kurt

Miranei word of the day 1-7-2011 - herral

Herral - destroy, eat messily (pronunciation - HAIR all)

whenever you use the 'ei' suffix (pronunciation - long i, like 'eye') it becomes an agent noun, so

Herralei - destroyer, eater (pronunciation - HAIR all eye)

fun usage:

"You herralei! You've herraln (past tense) my favorite Optimus Prime model!"

"Man, I want to herrali (future tense) a seven layer, Taco Bell burrito..."

Almost all elvish words have multiple meanings, so herrali (pronunciation HAIR all EE) means a person or thing is going to eat in a rather messy and ultimately destructive way.

And as you can see, we have verb tense for past, present and future. They are all suffixes:

past - 'n'

present - 'a' (pronunciation ah)

future - 'i'  (pronunciation ee)


cheers,

Kurt


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Miranei word of the day 1-6-2011 - vamrthal

Vamrthal - warming,  protecting  (pronunciation: VAM er THAL, although the 'er' sound should be very soft when it occurs without a vowel)

vamr - warm,  protect     (pronunciation: VAM er) (see above about the 'er' sound)

thal - 'ing' suffix  (pronunciation: THAL, short 'a' like 'all')

examples of use:

"This green tea is really keeping me vamr."

"The heat kicked in and the apartment is finally vamrthal up."

"I will vamr you, come hell or high water."

"Oh, he stares like that at everybody, he thinks he's vamrthal me."


pronounciation - Vamrthal



Use Miranei to confuse and amuse your friends!

cheers,

Kurt


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One year later

I began this blog one year ago, in an effort to chronicle my efforts with my novel writing and publishing adventures.

I ended up self publishing to what I consider moderate success. Although my cash flow for novel to income is still in the red. It isn't that far away from breaking even. And with over 800 downloads of my works: novel, short stories, and poetry anthology, I must say I am happy with the beginning momentum. Most of the downloads were for free, because I'm just such a swell guy. That's why I haven't broken even faster.

So what's next?

Well, obviously, the sequel to The Last Elf of Lanis: The Archer From Kipleth.

At present I am more than half finished, and I am very happy with how it is turning out. I know you're going to love it. My writing just keeps getting better and better, and my productivity keeps getting faster and faster.

So, as we end the 0's, and enter the decade of the Teens, I'm going to lay out for you the Master Plan. My goals for the coming year and the years to follow.

Of course a lot of this depends on staying healthy and not having to give up too much time for other necessary pursuits.

But all things being equal, I expect to deliver into your hands The Archer From Kipleth a week after Midwinter's day, which is February 28. The date is significant, because this is the day on which The Archer From Kipleth begins, in the world of the novel. So, that's my immediate goal.

Before then, you're going to get a short story about Iounelle's hijinks earlier in her life when she breaks some rules while an unwelcome guest visits the capital, Lanis Rhyl Landemiriam. The story will be entitled Bawn Hae.

In the long term: For 2011 you're going to get Book Two: The Archer From Kipleth and Book Nine: Mars. I doubt Book Three: The Lord of Lightning will be ready for 2011, but you never know. Money is a great motivator. If a publishing deal pops up this year, my productivity should increase exponentially. (hint, hint)

I hope to release Book Three: The Lord of Lightning on the same day as Book Four: Legends of Haergill and Conniker's Tale. Realistically, that will happen sometime early in 2012.

If the great apocalypse doesn't happen on Dec 12, 2012, I expect to release at least two books a year until the whole cycle is complete. All of this, of course, is dependent on time and money.

And it should break down like this:

2011 - Book Two and Book Nine

2012 - Book Three and Book Four

2013 - Book Ten and Book Five

2014 - Book Six and Book Seven and Book Eight

2015 - Book Eleven and Book Twelve

Why the strange order? It will make sense later, perhaps years later. Just trust me on this one.

Here's to a great new year for you and yours.

cheers,

Kurt



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