Whit

Whit sounds like wit and according to dictionary.com, it means

a particle; bit; jot (used especially in negative phrases).

I have changed not a whit. I don't feel a whit better than I felt yesterday; in fact, I feel worse.

Whence as from what place

Since I have mighty difficulties using my brain, I decided to browse through more famous quotes and learn some more archaic English words.

The new word I learn today is whence. Although I could have guess it to be associated "when," it's actually related to "where."

For instance

Whence comest though?

Means

Where do you come from?

Whither as to what place, whereever

I fancy archaic words.

Just came across this word whither these two days.

But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice , to their fate.
Rand, Ayn (2012-05-12). Anthem (p. 80).  . Kindle Edition. 

Old Testamen,t Ruth i. 16. For whither thou goest, I will go.
Various (2009-10-04). Familiar Quotations (Kindle Locations 101-102). Public Domain Books. Kindle Edition. 

 Wonder whether it's a legit way of using the word whither:

When starting to work on my book, I didin't see whither I was going?


I especially like the part "whither though goest"--feels mighty kimoji...

Save is except?

Found an interesting usage of Save in Ayn Rand's Anthem. Save means except.

Nothing moves in this tunnel save our hand on the paper.
Rand, Ayn (2012-05-12). Anthem (Kindle Locations 21-22).  . Kindle Edition.
And now there is nothing here save our one body , and it is strange to see only two legs stretched on the ground, and on the wall before us the shadow of our one head.
Rand, Ayn (2012-05-12). Anthem (Kindle Locations 23-24).  . Kindle Edition. 

save 2 prep. & conj. FORMAL or POETIC/LITERARY except; other than: no one needed to know save herself; the kitchen was empty save for Boris. <ORIGIN> Middle English: from Old French sauf, sauve, from Latin salvo, salva (ablative singular of salvus 'safe'), used in phrases such as salvo jure, salva innocentia 'with no violation of right or innocence'.

 (2010-04-01). The New Oxford American Dictionary (Kindle Locations 731421-731426). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.

Example: No one need to know what I write in the Ratology Heal Blog save myself.

Schizophrenia as 精神分裂症 or 思覺失調症

Just learned it from a friend of mine that Schizophrenia, formerly known as 精神分裂症, has been renamed to 思覺失調症, with de-stigmatization as the purpose.

http://www.mohw.gov.tw/cht/Ministry/DM2_P.aspx?f_list_no=7&fod_list_no=4558&doc_no=45300

蜂窩性組織炎 in English

Was wondering what 蜂窩(性)組織炎 is in English. The answer is simple Cellulitis.

打點滴 in English? Getting an IV

Just realized that I had no idea what 打點滴 is in English.

After googling around, I found that I do know what it is in English, getting an IV, except I can't map the two together. lol

Therefore, 打點滴 means getting an IV, and vice versa.

Die a thousand deaths

"Die a thousand deaths" was one of an expression I used in my writing and the editors suggested me to have it edited out.

Ended up, the salad words outta my disordered mouth had been used before by Mr. Hemingway himself in A Farewell to Arms.

"The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but once."
"Of course. Who said it?"
"I don't know."
"He was probably a coward," she said. "He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them."

Does Hemingway really believe that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but once" or "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave two thousand deaths"? Since I didn't read through the whole book, can't tell ya.

At least, here it is ... the context where the saying came from.

儞 ㄋ一ˇ ni 8-O

In Discussions on horses (馬上談), a segment of Dongpo Chan Xi Ji 東坡禪喜集, I came across this Chinese character that I have never seen in my life 儞:  

蘇東坡與佛印出城遊行。佛印謂坡曰。儞在馬上十分好。一似一尊佛也。坡答曰。儞穿一領玉衆裟。在馬上好。似一堆太牛屎也。印云。我口出佛。儞口出屎。隨從人呵呵大笑。

This is a character I couldn't even find when attempting to type it out independent of the input methods. Since I couldn't type it out, it's impossible to google it and verify its existence using the digital method.

Regardless, based on the information about the radical and the number of strokes, I found that 儞 is the archaic form of 你--sort of thou to you (singular format).

See the following more information on 儞:

1. http://dict2.variants.moe.edu.tw/variants/rbt/word_attribute.rbt
2. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%84%9E

Enliterate

Years back, I decided to create the word "enliterate" for the convenience of my writing because it sounds good.

Since the prefix "en" can mean "cause to be in a certain condition," I used the word "enliterate" to mean "make someone become literate."

Ended up, this word (and its variations) that I can't even find in dictionaries have appeared in various sources...

Enliterate

• http://www.unisa.ac.za/cedu/news/index.php/2012/08/school-workbooks-for-all/  
• http://www.trinicenter.com/winford/2003/May/112003.htm
• molteno 2011 annual report.pdf

Enliteration

• Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
• More...

So?

Thank God.  Now I don't even have to make an argument about whether "enliterate" is a word since it's been used before! lol 

Ratology Lingo Update

The discovering Ratology Lingo in process... new items are appended to the end of the list.

 

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Mickey mouse case?

Mickey mouse is small (since it is a mouse).

When I say "Mickey mouse case," I mean nothing big... small case.

Club Meds

After I came out of the psychiatric ward the first time, this gentleman I knew asked me where I had been. Not quite sure what to tell him and not wanting to lie, I told him that I was in Club Meds.

I wondered whether he might have thought it to be my ESL style of pronouncing Club Med, though.

Ratology lingo

(1/8/2014 Update: Please see http://neologyratology.blogspot.com/2014/01/ratology-lingo-update.html for the updated Ratology Lingo list)

My writing in the Ratology domain is mostly nothing too close to standard English.  I know it along the way but since I have been using language this way so long, many of the usages have become the standardized Ratology usage.  (Of course, some part of my strange English is simply due to either mindless mistakes or my not-knowing-English-too-well kind of error. 8-O lol)

After I went through the notes and edits of proofreaders who went through the model I developed on my psychosis, I got to better identify how Ratology lingo deviates from standard English. One thing I have to stress is that I have no way to tell whether these preferred usages are a manifestation of the pathology or not--could be and could be not. Following is a list of Ratology language usage  (still a work in process) with some of the points actually already mentioned in the Neologism in Ratology blog.

1. Me’s, myselves, and Is.  Nothing grand and no mistakes... given my split-headed existence and as an attempt to acknowledge all the voices etc in me... there came... "mes, myselves, and Is."
2. I like to put words together to create a new word.
3. I like to build sentences this way: aberrant my brain structure or limited my words as opposed to my aberrant brain structure or my limited words
4. I like to build sentences this way: verb+not as in turn right not
5. I use emoticons to express feelings :-O :-X :-D lol
6. I like the sound of what it be like as opposed to what would it be like
7. I like to use da, them, la, etc as opposed to the standardized the
8. I like to use double negatives: should there be no nothing
9. I like the word: Donno
10. I like the word: Ain’t
11. I use the notion of “self” a lot because being psychotic is all about all things relating to me’s, myselves, and I’s.  Therefore, terminologies like self-related.
12. I like to use vernacular language
13. I use the term “the normal” to refer to “the non-psychotic”
14. Sometimes psychotic is used as a noun to represent a person with psychosis
15. In terms of comma, I really don’t know my commas too well.  However, sometimes that comma I put in does mean a pause partially because I do think slowly and there are pauses between my thoughts
16. The Apocalypses and the notion of being killed a million and a time I speak of refer to the scenarios at the height of my second full-blown psychotic episode.
17. Bend and snap: As per Elle in Legally Blond, "In my experience, it has a 98% success rate of getting a man's attention and when used appropriately -- it has an 83% rate of return on a dinner invitation. It's called the 'bend and snap.'" As per yours truly, I might have to swap "a man's attention" to "my symptoms' attention" and "a dinner invitation" to "an increase in medications." 8-O lol
18. I use the word “la” at the end of the sentence at times. Since 2-3 years ago and after I went back to Taiwan, I picked up this usage of "la" because I simply like it la! Them "la's" you see in my writing, it's the pinyin of the Chinese character "啦":  a final particle of assertion.

(This writing is cross-posted in Ratology Reloaded.)

What's that "la"?

Since 2-3 years ago and after I went back to Taiwan, I picked up this usage of "la" because I simply find it komoji la!

Then, when going through the edits my proofreader made, I realized that that "la" was causing him some confusions. Oopsy...

So, them "la's" you see in my writing, it's the pinyin of the Chinese character "啦":  a final particle of assertion.

C'est ça la! 8-O lol

Bend and snap

Since I use the "Bend and snap" expression quite often, I decide to post this blurb originally posted in Ratology Reloaded here.

DWM and bend and snap

Totally gonna stick to two and a half pills of 25 mg Seroquel until the last minute since them higher level cognitive processing that is required for yours sadomasochist to work on this psychotic model of my cuckoo head is a real...@#$%& (meaning I am not gonna go down on dosage until the fish on the cutting board thing gets too unbearable and, of course, before esophageal spasm strikes however sedated I might be the entire day as long as I have sufficient cognitive capacity to do 1-2 hours of da work to ensure Seroquel can shut the head down afterwards sucessfully...)

Higher level up, thought racing propensity up, grandiosity up and delusions also up... like bend and snap it never fails! 8-O 8-X lol

As per Elle in Legally Blond, "In my experience, it has a 98% success rate of getting a man's attention and when used appropriately -- it has an 83% rate of return on a dinner invitation. It's called the 'bend and snap.'"

As per yours truly, I might have to swap "a man's attention" to "my symptoms' attention" and "a dinner invitation" to "an increase in medications." 8-O lol 

 (The sole reason why I am making this post public is to show you the famous "bend and snap" that never fails! 8-O lol)

all be it albeit

Was checking online about this word I really enjoy using (maybe too excessive) today... "albeit"...

Apparently, it is a late middle English word... (no wonder I like it since I am really a dinosaur in this modern world... lol)

Then, I realize that the word albeit came from the middle English expression of "all be it" although they say it is wrong to use "all be it."

So I thought, all be it proper not, I am gonna try to make a sentence using all be it (erroneous usage or not). 8-O lol

假處分 Provisional Injunction

Given the state of the current affairs in Taiwan, yours legally illiterate heard the term 假處分 all the time and finally decided to look up what 假處分 means.

條文內容：
債權人就金錢請求以外之請求，欲保全強制執行者，得聲請假處分。
假處分，非因請求標的之現狀變更，有日後不能強制執行，或甚難執行之虞者，不得為之。

I originally thought that the word "假" means fake, ended up, it's more like the the 假 in "放假"... 暫時狀態 (temporary state) where nothing changes.

Apparently, in English, this is called Provisional Injunction, "a term that is used to describe the temporary injunction or a preliminary restraining order."

Puerto Plata principle

"Puerto Plata principle?"

When I was in the resort of Puerto Plata, DR., there were open bars everywhere and they even come to restuff alcohol in the refrigerator on a daily basis. A drinker's paradise!

The only problem was that it wouldn't be too much fun if I get too boozed up and wake up with one of them hangovers that last for days with me religiously worshiping the porcelain God by giving back everything I consume. As a result, I had to be disciplined with my drinking- drinking enough to get the money's worth yet not so much that I would wake up with a huge hangover. It was an art to appropriate and an essential art to keep on drinking.... 8-O lol

So, during my recovery process and still, every day, when I find myself having the propensity to push and push even more, so I say to myself... "Puerto Plata principle."

(This was derived from a post originally posted in Ratology Reloaded)

気持ち (きもち) kimoji

I grew up using this Japanese expression "kimoji"- sort of like gemütlich in German, good atmosphere in English and 氣氛 in Chinese.

Since I have been trying to learn the Japanese alphabets since around the time when I became telepathic again, based on the sound I have used gazzillion and a time in my life so far, I used hiragana to come up with the spelling for kimoji- きもじ.  Yet, I simply couldn't find in any of my googling result stating kimoji is like 氣氛 in Chinese.

So I thought of this Taiwanese friend of mine who seems to be really well-versed in Japanese and sent her this SOS message, "how do you write in Japanese "kimoji"?"

Following is the ensuing conversation:

• Expert, "気持ち (きもち)"
• Ratprincess, "thanks... so it is not ji but chi?"
• Expert, "ya"

Also (German)... 

So it is... 気持ち (きもち or kimochi) in Japanese is きもじ (kimoji) in Taiwanese Japanese!

Could have continued to be wrong a million and a time more!  Except, in Taiwanese Japanese, 気持ち would remain to sound like きもじ (kimoji)-- I guess.

(This was originally posted in Ratology Reloaded on November 5, 2012.  Decided to cross-post it here.)