cats&chaos

cats&chaos

Classical Greek Lesson 1- Alphabet

Notes These notes correspond to an upcoming course I am preparing in Classical Greek. This course will follow Anne Groton’s From Alpha to Omega: A Beginning Course in Classical Greek. Buy here. Background Greek is an Indo-European language that has…

Manning’s Equation Calculator

This is a simple script that computes normal flow for pipes and rectangular channels. I wrote this on JavaScript at some point when I needed to determine flow capacities for pipes. Shape: CircularRectangular Diameter, d (ft) Roughness, n Slope, s…

Handspeak: An online ASL resource

Back in August I started learning American Sign Language in order to have more fluent conversations with one of my co-workers. Having someone to talk with five days a week really helps out when learning a new language, and in…

Chinese Skill- First Impression Review

During my quest to learn a new language, I came across Duolingo. The nifty app+website does a great job of introducing learners t o a new language through practice and repetition. Though it is clear that Duo is not a comprehensive single…

Ancient Greek #6: Negative Adverbs

In Greek, there are two forms of the negative adverb “not”: one for indicative verbs (e.g. He is not teaching.) and one for imperative verbs (e.g. Do not teach.) The negative adverb is placed immediately before the verb. The following table shows the two…