April 15th, 2009

About Energy

The paper presents, shortly, some relations which may deduce the total
energy of a corpuscle, W, the kinematical energy of this particle, E,
and the energy DE that increases the corpuscle mass, from the rest
mass, m0, to mass m. Generally, one considers the DW energy like the
exactly kinematical energy and E energy like an approximately
kinematical energy. In this paper one presents an original method to
deduce the kinematical energy E, starting from kinematical Force
(Lagrange Force). The author wants (in this mode) establish the E
energy of a corpuscle like the exactly kinematical energy.

March 31st, 2009

Abuse the local language or abuse the international language?

This article details the travails of Fred as he suffers through a Canadian woman abusing the Japanese language and discusses how Westerners abuse Japanese, Japanese abuse English, and people like to announce the languages they can speak.

Fred and I were nursing our drinks the other night in a crowded place in Yokohama. We were there for a less than stimulating meeting, and Fred was having a good moan, which is the term he uses instead of complaining. Fred may have picked up this Briticism, or perhaps even a Commonwealth expression, in the U.K. or somewhere else, but he really seemed to like using it. Perhaps it is human nature to be attracted to new words and new languages, and love using them. If the words are not too pretentious and are comprehensible, what is the harm?


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