Author Archives: ErnieM

Points: ids are expressive and useful. I won’t forget “Fazit” (conclusion) –ein zusammenfassendes Ergebnis. I wonder if “Fazit” is actually short for “zusammenfassend”? It fits, anyway.

As I have said often before, each word/idea is a problem and a challenge in how to represent it graphically. “Force” I find a very difficult concept to illustrate. “Something that tends to influence the motion of a body” is … Continue reading →

First paragraph from the book “The Character of Physical Law” by Richard Feynman. With detailed notes.

Continuing my exploratory exercise of rendering of German prefixes into ids.

I will, as an exercise, present ids for German prefixes/prepositions–ent-, er-, um-, an-, ab-, zer-, etc. It will be a way for me to gain clarity on the meanings of terms beginning with them. I’ll start with zer-. I think … Continue reading →

The video referred to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm0ahOUONbw

This is a good id improvement that I’m sure I’ll use all of the time. I was in fact working on a project and had the thought “I’ll get it done bit by bit” and this is what popped into … Continue reading →