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Glossary
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- pachcab
- pad, made from leather, worn by a tlaxtli
player on one wrist and on the opposite knee (language=Olmec)
- palmas
- thick-leather protection covering front and back of an olloman's torso and
engraved with alligators, herons, and other animal figures (language=Olmec)
- Pandaemonium
- capital of Hell in Paradise
Lost (1667) epic poem by John Milton
- panuchos
- "mini tortillas stuffed with beans and meat and deep fried" from
cue/www=http://www.sonic.net/~mayangrl/discoveryucatan.html
(language=Mayan); see also cue/www=http://www.halfmoon.org/
- Papa
- Poppa (language=Français)
- patrie
- country (language=Français)
- pattern
- this word has many meanings, which implies its importance to human beings;
on Yeibichai, the most
important meaning is "a model to be followed in making things."
Christopher Alexander, et alia, at the Center for Environmental Structure,
in their books, especially A Pattern Language (see Acknowledgements).
As Weir reveals in Chapter 2, "Pattern Languages expressed aspects of
psychology that evolved long before technology relieved people of natural
pressures."
- Le Père
- Father (language=Français)
- persona
- see discussion under anima (language=Latin)
- phylogeny on Yeibichai
- Bowing to an article in Speculations, I developed the following overview
of how life evolved on Yeibichai
before Gaeans arrived and (of course), it's different from evolution on Gë.
A five-legged marine baseline evolved a capa-caudal asymmetrical
orientation when it moved onto land, iaw the article that supposed such an
orientation to be vital for land animals (sense of direction important in
finding water). So:
 | four appendages evolved into motive force
| the fifth took on the sensory organs and in some cases, fine motor
control, called "sense-head"
| with a sufficiently flexible neck, some may be able to run in either
direction equally well.
| the animals eat through a maw tucked between the forward shoulders
| brains evolved in the same area, occupying a padded hump generally on
top
| multiple hearts with the main one in the gut near the lungs, called
the pneumo-heart
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physical
part of the physical-logical-virtual
trilogy of indirection that describes the conceptual cybernetic movement
from Real Space to Cyberspace, "physical" describes the Newtonian
reality that most of us acknowledge around us (language=American
technical jargon); according to cue/www=http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/p/physical.html:
"Refers to anything pertaining to hardware. The opposite of physical is
logical or virtual, which describe software objects. For example, physical
memory refers to the actual RAM chips installed in a computer. Virtual
memory, on the other hand, is an imaginary storage area used by programs. /
A physical data structure refers to the actual organization of data on a
storage device. The logical data structure refers to how the information
appears to a program or user. For example, a data file is a collection of
information stored together. This is its logical structure. Physically,
however, a file could be stored on a disk in several scattered pieces."
see also zhuhndí
picoturization
miniaturization to the pico-meter (10**-12 meters) level (language=Yeibichai/tek)
pince
cellar (language=Magyar; pronunciation=pitse, where ts is like bits,
tsetse) [Magyar-Angol, Angol-Magyar Szótár (Hungarian-English,
English-Hungarian Dictionary), edited by Tamás Magay et alia, New York:
Hippocrene Books, Inc. with Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1972]
pisote
mammal of tropical American of genus Nasua, related to raccoon, with
longer body and tail and a long flexible snout; aka coati
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même
chose
The more things change, the more they stay the same (language=Français,
Alphonse Karr. Les Guêpes, January 1849)
policyware
as computers become part of a business' infrastructure (see infraware),
they will become the medium in which all communications, decisions,
collaborations, and so on occur; what better way to ensure that these
interaction comply with a business' policy-and-procedures? More accessible
than your standard Policy-and-Procedures Manual — and more obeyed —
policyware ensures that a business runs the way its owners and managers want
it to, right down to unintended consequences (language=Yeibichai)
port/Em-Deh
a physical portal that enables a device to
connect to the Mirnaya
Direvnya (language=Yeibichai/technical
jargon)
pranayama
"the sacred breath, a simple tangible method for unification of body
mind spirit. as a musician breath awareness places you in the moment, allows
you to navigate the moment of inner and shared creativity,harmony, ecstacy
... meditation technique: breathe clear and light through your nose, lips
closed. use your third eye as a point for focus and concentration. be aware
the pulse of your breath, the space within your breath. chant the mantre
silently within. move the mantra through your chakras. extend the mantra
through your spirit. unity peace" (language=Samskrta); cue/www=http://www.shenloop.com/pranayama_nn4.html
or cue/www=http://www.pranayama.org/
priority Klatsch
method of passing floor-token within will-hear
discussion group (Klatsches
only) in which the moderator assigns each registered speaker a priority
between 0 and 31; moderator retains priority 32; unregistered guests assume
priority 15. The token passes from the active speaker, after a minimum
period of time (set as property for the group), to the bidding non-active
speaker with the highest priority (language=Yeibichai/technical
jargon)
prolix
redundancy in a network (adaptation of English) (language=Yeibichai/tek)
prosteh
low-class (language=Yidish Daytsh)
puhnu
leaf (language=Sindhi)
pulse poll
vote in will-hear
discussion group about agreement with speaker-on-floor, as aye, nay, or
abstain (language=Yeibichai/Em-Deh);
denoted by:
speaker-name requests pulse: out of number-of-participants
active in Klatsch, percent-voting-to-abstain-or-not-voting-in-required-time%
abstain, percent-voting-nay% nay, and percent-voting-aye%
agree with pronoun-to-agree-with-speaker-name with
percentages arranged in descending order
See also sense poll
putz
literally, penis, but in current usage, it means to mess around.
"Despite its origin, this is quite a mild term (s.a. jerk, schlep,
schmuck)" (language=Yidish Daytsh) cue/www=http://mmm.mit.edu/~liju99/slang.html
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