Author: Teresa Pelka

Linguist, specialized in American English and psycholinguistics; inventor of Language Mapping, a generative grammar method; author and translator; a poet and painter a bit.

My well-being book

When I was a teenager I was quite a case: I had ■hyperinsulinemic episodes. I would get shaky hands and have to eat sweets for the thing to be gone. This inspired me to learn about human natural chemistry. My learning and practice helped me get rid of the shakes, though my metabolism remains. I … Continue reading My well-being book →

Thesis: general conclusions

Written or spoken language undeniably can be information, for purposes of civic, medical, or other lore. Human intellect needs to emerge individually, before group or societal realization. Physical parameters of bodily function meet information objectives in every living person, of a species where individuals are homeostatic by standard. A frame of cellular dynamics capable of … Continue reading Thesis: general conclusions →

To constitute a man

"In this country, where his opposition to the corruptions of government has raised him so many adversaries, and such a swarm of unprincipled hirelings have exerted themselves in blackening his character, and in misrepresenting all the transactions and incidents of his life, will it not be a most difficult, nay, an impossible task, for posterity, … Continue reading To constitute a man →

Le Pacifique… C’est beauté

The Union of the Pacific looks really good (if not super good) in comparison: UP, in the acronym. Anyway, as you please. ■More

When it is murder

Habeas corpus is a legal predicate of no broader scope implied. You have your (the) body, it says, and it does not say anyone has you. It must be, you have yourself. ■More

The monitor hypothesis

If you are German, French, Russian, Polish or another and you learn American, you could not write a book in American, because your American is a monitor, it is not source. Hmm... ? ■More

Constructive criticism

The idea here is, people can be reasonable when it is worth it; and more, people can learn what is worth learning. Could we have a math integral requirement in a constitution?

Carpe linguam

The dot is mostly rounded or square, but were it triangular or hexagonal, the sense for it always would be to give some frame to what there is written or spoken. It is never there to divide or terminate written or spoken thought. ■More

Paine & Wycliffe 1 Chron 25.1

Then David, and the masters of the host, designated the sons of Asaph... ■More

Paine & Wycliffe: 1 John 5.7-8

For there are three to bear witness in Heavens, the Father, the Word, or the Son, ■More

The American Crises

Thomas Paine wrote some 13 papers titled "The American crisis". His editor, Moncure Daniel Conway wrote, "a number of political pamphlets had appeared in London, I775-I776, under general title of " The Crisis." By the blunder of an early English publisher of Paine's writings, one essay in the London "Crisis " was attributed to Paine, … Continue reading The American Crises →

Paine & Wycliffe: Matthew 28.2

Behold, a huge earthquake was made; truly the Lord’s angel came down from Heaven, and he came near, to turn away the stone, and sat on it. ■More

Paine & Wycliffe: Matthew 28.1

At the end of sabbath, or holiday, which abides by the lights (three stars) that shine into the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came, and another Mary, to see the grave. ■More

Paine & Wycliffe: Mark 15.25

It was the third hour indeed, when men called out one for another and crucified him. ■More

Paine & Wycliffe: John 19.14

For the time was of preparations, before Passover, as the sixth hour or midday. And he said to the Jews, Here is your king. ■More

Paine & Wycliffe: Matthew 26.74

He began to worry then and swore like an oath, he did not know the man. ■More

Paine & Wycliffe: Matthew 1

The book of origin of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham. ■More

Paine & Wycliffe: Matthew 13.55-6

Is this not the son of a smith or carpenter? Is not his mother called Mary? And his brothers, James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, have they all not been among us? ■More

All the Paine in Age

The post gathers all Bible quotes by Thomas Paine in his Age of Reason. ■More

Paine & Wycliffe: 1 Esdras 2.3

… sons of Pharosh, two thousand and one hundred seventy two … ■More

Paine & Wycliffe: 1 Esdras 2

These were in sooth the people, sons of the province who stood up (Mayhew and Skeat stien: ascended) from the wretchedness, whom Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, had taken over into Babylon; and they were turned again into Jerusalem and Judea, each to his city, those who came with… ■More

Paine quotes & Wycliffe: Exodus 32.1

The people in their sincerity, seeing that Moses was postponing his return ... ■More

Paine & Wycliffe: Joshua 5.15

Without delay, Joshua fell to the ground and asked anxious, What is it my Lord says to his servant? ■More

Paine & Wycliffe: Joshua 5.14

Who answered, Nay, I am a prince of the host of the Lord, and now I come. ■More

Paine & Wycliffe: Joshua 5.13

Verily, when Joshua was in the compass of the city of Jericho, he raised his eyes and saw a man standing opposite, holding a drawn sword; Joshua came up to him and said, Are you ours, or of the adversaries? ■More

Paine & Wycliffe: 1 Samuel 13.1

Saul was a “son of one year” (an innocent), when he began to reign; likewise he reigned two years over Israel (but he reigned more years in malice). ■More

If there is Heaven, then in Heaven

World War II pretty much ended beliefs in God acting on Earth. The war was terror and destruction: ■Reich Security arrested Jews as well as anyone else; troops had flame throwers in regular use. No God ever stopped them. ■Gott mit uns meant ■God with us. Completely atheist however, the human being would become a … Continue reading If there is Heaven, then in Heaven →

Thank you, Thomas Paine

It was the beginning of the century, when writings from China became known in England, widely as for the commoner. The Chinese dated before Christ, but some of theirs was not ultimately the origin; those beginnings were still worse for a monarch: they were ancient Greece, the human first attempts at democracy. ■More

The toolbox Poland

Born in Poland — and nobody ever has choice on the time and place — you cannot change your citizenship, unless the President allows. The President's resolve cannot be appealed.

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A Shapely and Handsome Fable, chapter 5

The ancients speculated there would have been some form of feedback between the God’s Instrument or True Being and the partible world, where philosopher Shapely added rhyme. ■More

A Shapely and Handsome Fable, chapter 4

This has been mostly water to spur curiosity, chip from a block of ice and snowflake, if traveled through air, about physical gates. The question was whether one shape could turn into another owing to planes, those we know from planimetry. ■More

Manually fractured penne

I have never been certain about the validity of the CIA motto, "the truth will set you free": mighty uncomfortable, freedom is not truly liberty. To be free, one yet needs to consider. ■More

I do love as is

I do love as is. Is — to say much enough, To say exactly. Is, no other. Not by rule, Committee, Parity of gold. Language as is, I do love. It’s been some forty Thousands of years. Language lives always today Young, whenever living. ©Teresa Pelka ■In Polish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEw6vH43B4

Colors green and gestalt: print in CMYK

Whatever this world is really, it is not truly very much math. "Machine" green, natural green, "bluey" green -- there may be algorithms to process colors, but the human visual impression is not going to be mathematical. ■More

Casual Shakespeare

Most people on Earth have heard the name. Nobody has seen the man, as all people who have lived since may have seen styled images only, of William Shakespeare. John Taylor, Wikimedia Commons First Folio, Wikimedia Stratford Monument, Wikimedia John Taylor, self-portrait; Wikimedia ■John Taylor, the same as Millière it seems, hardly painted anybody except … Continue reading Casual Shakespeare →

Against

Against my soul,
Do I believe?
Against my spirit,
Do I want?

Do we have it?

Self-talk is one voice talking to itself. Inner dialogue is several voices linked to different positions, says Wikipedia. There yet always remains the question if we are so sorted. ■More

No more pangs

■Executive order 14224 makes English the official language of the USA. Depending on the ■decree, establishment of an official language might also place restrictions on the use of other languages, says Wikipedia about ■official languages. What is it in common the French Revolution and the sunshiny French kings of afore would have had? The guillotine. … Continue reading No more pangs →

4. Feedback deficiency and language

Conscious human experience becomes possible with the person form for individual awareness, known as the human mind. Though it may never become defined in universal terms for constituents or inner composure, the mind has been recognized in function to consolidate thinking as well as feeling (Vander et al., 1985). Neurophysiology is capable of conditioned insight … Continue reading 4. Feedback deficiency and language →

Transcreation

The "yellow moon" has been the "harvest moon" in history. The transcreation "northern harvest lunar tan" refers to sidereal measurement of time as relative to the vernal equinox -- hence, "let us ban a minute, even if there be one only". ■More

Inner me

Inner me was a child
Some time, long ago time past.
Abandoned, forgotten,
It gets bored.

Thomas Paine as a young man

Mainstream, run-of-the-mill, or even rush-hour, we people time and again get honestly to reflect on what we see. Preparing a book series, I arrived at reviewing images of Thomas Paine. Spontaneously, simply as pictures, regardless of the who, how could I describe one? Skin complexion: yellow clay facials? Right eye: fry an egg, tilt the … Continue reading Thomas Paine as a young man →

The fable of philosopher Honeybee

Philosopher Honeybee did not consider it impossible, that all humanity could be more or less free of demerit one day, he yet never cared to proliferate evil in order to help keep the shape of the world. ■More

To see and win: human immunity

I doubt immune nutrition wouldn't work for other people. It certainly can. ■More

Job’s Tear

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"Very well then", said He, we remember —
"Into the hand that roams the earth;
But you do not touch the man". ■More

Autumn Pier

AT the autumn pier, there we were,
Almost all, grave and solemn
Our mercies turned one stone;
Deaf a bit, to old tongue,
Our souls told the verses. ■More

A Tale of Progress

Far, far away, and not anywhere near,
Of a time too obscure to give a date clear,
Think, there was an animalier
Expecting aesthetically to cohere
If they’d endear ― an engineer. ■More

Age as After Another Poet

For the rind’s breathing revel,
Every walk dares the devil,
In eager with life love affair:
Young age keen on colors of passion,
Old age preen in tinctures ashen,
To tedium ― all give the air. ■More

A Shapely and Handsome Fable, chapter 3

Shapely Timaeus remembers a day God spoke and people could hear. A capable She God there was too, a nurse and instructress, lover of wisdom and delicate celestial warps. ■More

A Shapely and Handsome Fable, chapter 2

Both Shapely and Handsome supposed the spiritual world existed before the partible nature, and both indicated that human souls in afterlife are spiritual as can be. ■More