Hounds, Words, and Faeries

[kiya]

I can hear the dog-range whistle at the end of "A Day in the Life". A bit of wrestling with google produces the claim that it is 15 kHz. (Further wrestling with google produces the claim that normal human range for hearing is 20Hz-20kHz. But apparently most people can't hear the dog whistle.) This does give me a number to play with, at least. I wonder what range slightly glitchy electronics whine in.

Transferred the 2300 words of the work-currently-being-pounded-on to the file I'm pounding on it in, broke it into two chapters, wrote the second half of the first one, wrote enough of the beginning to the chapter after to know where it starts up when I get back to it. Somewhere between five and six hundred words of actual output. Not sure I caught all the bits where the previously written stuff doesn't quite mesh with the events that actually got written; will check on that later.

Have done a little Work with the ally that I contacted at the first training session with yezida. Will be ready for what tomorrow brings, even if I don't manage to get my act together enough to get into town and poke around. . . if nothing else, I've fulfilled the beginnings of my end of the bargain, and that's enough to make it possible for the Work to continue.

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OT question

[redbird]

Someone's been posting a "your name in hieroglyphics" link that's clearly a character-by-character thing, and hence useless if the name means something. Do you by any chance know where I could find actual hieroglyphics for "Redbird," bearing in mind that while the specific bird Cardinalis cardinalis was not known to the ancient Egyptians, both "red" and "bird" are fairly basic concepts?

Re: OT question

[kiya]

Hm. The online dictionaries I know of don't seem to have either basic concept; I can construct you something, though. I don't have a high-quality dictionary, just Budge and my textbook, so this may not be perfectly accurate.

According to my Budge, red is tSr ("tesher"), textbook has dSr instead (the word I know for 'red land', the desert, is 'deshret'). (According to my textbook, this can be written with a flamingo.)

My textbook doesn't have a symbol for "bird" in general -- ostrich, swallow, sparrow, etc. Budge has a number of references for "bird", most of which appear to be "a type of bird" or "a bird with this characteristic" rather than bird-in-general. The "a kind of bird" I can find that's written with a swallow character (which is at least roughly the right size; I find no "finch") is 'wrd'.

Syntax in this case would be noun-adjective-(determinant). So the result looks something like:



(I think technically the first four symbols ought to be grouped three and one rather than two and two, but that made them hard to read.)

That would be pronounced something like 'urdesher', and means, syntactically, [bird of some sort, possibly a swallow]-red-(name of woman).

Re: OT question

[redbird]

Hmm. "Songbird" might be useful, if that concept is in the dictionary: while I prefer swallows to sparrows (especially the English sparrows that are so common here), sparrows are a little closer in size and shape. Hmm. Crow? Falcon?

Re: OT question

[kiya]

Dictionary has song-god, but not, apparently, songbird. There were a couple of "bird with this characteristic" that were things like "bird with a raucous cry" or "bird with a piercing whistle".

Part of why I didn't go with sparrow was that the textbook had it listed as a determinant for things of ill-omen.

Falcons we've got in spades. :}

Re: OT question

[kiya]

I should add that the bit that can maybe written with a flamingo is the cluster of three characters before the determinant.

Re: OT question

[kiya]

Also, the squiggle may be silent/elided/incorrect. That's the bit I'm less sure of. If it's there and pronounced, it's another 'u' sound.

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

I wonder what range slightly glitchy electronics whine in.

Oh, do you hear those too? Drives me batty. Especially when it's lights...

[oldsma.livejournal.com]

I used to be able to hear dog whistles and the early-generation motion detectors and stuff like that. But my hearing got damaged (nerve damage, but I have no idea how) and if I can still hear things like that, the tinnitus drowns it out.

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[leanne-opaskar.livejournal.com]

I can hear that too. Drives me insane. I rarely play Sgt. Pepper through to the end because of it.

I found a gizmo at one of our local science museums that indicates what pitches of hearing you can hear at ... assuming the machine was not broken, I can hear up into low-level bat range. O_O