Language – THE ENGLISH CODE

Analyze Contact, Collusion, Conspiracy: In That Order

And that’s where Trump and his entire team – right down to the Faux News team – are all clearly guilty. Because Russia wanted Trump to win. They even celebrated his victory. They are trying to undo the Magnitsky Act and get the oil drilling ban overturned. That is conspiracy.

True, This! — Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword. 1839, Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his play: Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy

hump-t2 I also believe words are more powerful than generally believed. A man’s words can outlive a man. They travel at great speed from man to man and lodge in their brains, inspiring actions. Words are contagious, like the flu.

So let’s analyze three words we hear about Trump so that we are clear on what they mean to us: CONTACT COLLUSION CONSPIRACY

They all start with CO(N). English C-words trace their inspiration back to Stone Ages and the claw of a bird. That association was formed because bird’s make the sound CAW or COO and we were very attracted to their CLAWS which could CATCH things better than we could. Remember, we were hunters when spoken language began to take root, about 100,000 years ago. c-claw

The written C looks like a claw for that reason. English C-words are largely about anything a claw can be or do. Closure, contact, crushing ..etc.

CONTACT ends in TACT. That has to do with touching, tactile. And that’s because when we say TUH there is a touching process in our mouths. So CONTACT means to touch together. Fair enough.

sun-lift COLLUSION end in LUSION. The other big word that ends in LUSION is ILLUSION. This is a classic L word. About 50% of L-words are about things that are associated with LIFTING and LIGHT, because when we say EL our tongues go up. It reminded the early talkers of the lifting of the arms we had employed to say LIGHT or LIFT before we got control of our tongues. LUSION is a for of LUX (the Latin word for light) and it has to do with LOOKING and LIGHT. COLLUSION just means “looking together”. It’s why it does not generally resound in us as a crime. It has a playful sense to it.

CONSPIRE ends in SPIRE. In SPIRE we see SPIRIT. It means that two are spirited together. spirit But SPIRE can be broken down further. I use a sort of lowest common denominator method to get to the root of a word. PYRE is FIRE. And S often represents MOTION when it starts an English word. A SPIRIT is the FIRE what moves within us. When two conspire, there is a sense of wishing for the same things and then working to make them happen.

And the order of business is logical as well. First, tip toe in – CONTACT! ( not a crime yet) Then explore if you see things the same way. (COLLUSION) Then, if there is accord – CONSPIRACY gets put into action. Enter Facebook, Google, fake news – and a victory that was not ethical, nor wanted by the majority nor even legitimate.

Now, it’s time to pay the price for conspiracy with a foreign enemy to affect the US election of 2016. And that used to be called TREASON.

Etymology Teaches Us Why Trump’s Delayed Responses Don’t Seem Sincere

The word “sincere” comes into English via French and Latin. SIN in Latin means without. (sans in French) CERE means cerebral, head or thought. SINCERE means WITHOUT THOUGHT.

When Trump spoke first on Charlottesville, it was off the cuff, without much thought. Those first words came from his heart. (Heart is not quite the right word here, is it?) Later, after speaking with advisers and reading the polls, he dressed his first words up, rephrasing them to appease more people. Those second words are no longer sincere, by the very definition of the word sincere.

Donald also fails to have honor, according to the root definition of that word. Honor means “one word”. The “hon” in honor represents one and the “or” represents oral. It’s that simple. When a person has one word they have honor. But Trump consistently and historically has been shown to reverse the things he says be believes in. That’s not honor. He does not even know what that word means.

So, by the truest definitions of these words, Trump has neither honor nor sincerity. And for these reasons, he is not even qualified to be a public school teacher, let alone be president.

Disclaimer: Sorry to use that metaphor my teacher friends. Teaching is super important work. But there are standards one must pass to be a public school teacher. Do you think Trump could get a teacher job after Access Hollywood was released? Not!

So Trump’s delayed consolation re Charlottesville seems insincere and his double talk ( as our parents called it ) has no honor. Without neither honor nor sincerity, Trump should not will not likely survive a full term as POTUS. And all those aligned with him will fall with him. This is why we see CEO’s bailing on DT right now. They are getting the jump on 2018. There will be no wiggling off this hook in 2018. All aligned with Trump are going down, if he even lasts that long.

#2 Do We Think in Pictures or Words?

Over time, the way we used our tongues to communicate led to a reprogramming of the way we actually thought, and now its hard to say that we still “think in pictures”. It appears to most that we sometimes think in pictures, but soon our minds gravitate back to thinking in words, which is the mainstay, especially when reading! Still, the words we are reading are living descendants of those original pictures that we thought in before we could speak . Our first words were simply descriptions of those images. In our first alphabets, we used actually images to form letters and scripts; hieroglyphics are actual images and Sumerian cuneiform is based on images. Once you understand the logic that generates much of the English language, one can decipher what those first images were by listening carefully to words, categorizing them into families and deciphering their roots.

Its also essential to understand that we thought in pictures much like animals before we spoke and we had been doing this “picture thinking” for 2 million years. Further, we inherited this method of thinking from our simean past, going back much further in time. One can not expect that the infrastructure to think in pictures has just vanished from the human brain. It has not. And we still consciously rely on it from time to time. It may even be that our words are just bridges to those images, and that we still think in pictures, but subconsciously.

#1 The Dawn of Speak

Before human beings spoke, we communicated with body/sign language and thought in pictures, much the way animals do. About 125,000 years ago, a genetic mutation occurred which allowed some humans to control the motions of their tongues. Then, slowly but surely, our body/sign language method of communicating was largely replaced with spoken words.

Before spoken language, we had to lift our arms to convey the concepts of lift, up, high, etc. After we got control of our tongues, we could simply mimic that motion with our tongues. Notice that in English we lift our tongues to say lift, elevator, ceiling, light, helium, etc. The connections to our Stone Age mode of communication are preserved within the English language.

In my book, Deciphering the English Code, the transition from Stone Age body/sign language to modern spoken words is depicted in a way that anyone can understand. New students of English will quickly acquire a grasp for nuts and bolts of the world’s most important language, and seasoned lovers of language will appreciate the new dimension that is added to comprehension when the history of a word is exposed.

“The Bible speaks of a pre-Babel language, common to all men. I believe the core of that first language still lives and its heartbeat can be detected within our English words.”

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