Béu : Chapter 10
The house cell
In the Christian religion, for the average adherent, the hour spent in church on Sunday represents the main obligation ... in terms of time anyway. Of course most Christians support their church financially and often their devotion results in some socialising with their fellows believers. This socializing usually has the aim of doing good-works but of course people enjoy socializing and these get-togethers often supply moral support with respect to personal problems and probably there is mutual re-enforcing of beliefs and a feeling of "solidarity" with respect to life's problems and the rest of the world in general.
The main time demand for a beuke is not sitting in a church listening to sermons but privately reading. This reading is done in a special room called a "cell". The volumes containing the body of knowledge that is considered "canonical" is read.
This reading is the most basic obligation however and most also go in for other "duties" such as dietary restrictions and prescribed daily excercise routines (to some extent at least). Many also volunteer time and money to the many activities which are proscribed by béu to promote personal happiness and social cohesion (these activities are actually designed to have the results (mentioned in the above paragraph) which seems like a chance by-product of certain Christian practices).
Other sections will go into detail about the duties touched on above. However this section is only about how the requirement to spend a certain time each day, reading the body of knowledge that béu considers "canonical" * affects the architecture of the typical béu followers place of residence.
The above shows the plan view of a "cell" : the room in which the reading of the "canonical" works is done. There is usually a cell in every family dwelling. It is a requirement that the cell is perfectly square and is windowless. Also the only lighting permitted is two oil lanterns fitted over either shoulder of the "reader" to cast light over the top of the lectern.
Behind the door is situated the bookcase that contain the "tomes" that constitute the béu canon. It is attached to the wall as opposed to standing on the floor. It can also be recessed into the wall.
Facing the door there is a large tapestry (a poster would also do). The image is usually of an awe-inspiring view of nature. However colourful fractals or geometric patterns are also quite common.
The rectangular object is a lectern. And behind the lectern is a comfy seat. And either side of the seat (above on the wall) are two lanterns.
On the wall facing the lectern is "the shelf".
Below is shown one of the lanterns. Obviously to prevent fire these ate placed in fairly substantial brackets connected to the wall.
- At the present time, the body of work that is considered "canonical", consists of about 12 volumes. However unlike other movements ... in béu, there is actually a mechanism for updating and improving these "proscribed books". The very opposite to every other religion. Every other religion has shown a strong instinct to hastily gather a body of script together and then to "set it in stone" ... well that is a by-product of our mental make-up. Hopefully the results of a more deliberate method will also be considered worthy of reverence ( or a little consideration at least :-) ).
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The "canon"
Well there is the main volume of course ???
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Then there is the 5 volumes containing the "5 main subjects".
History ... I have temporarily made Jared Diamonds book, "Guns, Germs and Steel" canonical (until the proper tome can be written of course).
Mathematics ...
Chemistry ... (maybe 30 % of the pages of this book will be given over to organic chemistry)
Physics ... Actually more comprising what I would call Engineering Science ( motion of bodies, forces and their direction within a bridge, etc. etc. )
The language of Béu ... actually a broader linguistic course
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Then there is the 5 volumes containing the "5 minor subjects".
Human Physiology/Health ... maybe about 10 % of the pages of this book will be given over to how other animals do things (after first explaining how the human body does things of course)
The Civil Society which surrounds the beuke ... for example banking system, mortgages, local government, central government, tax, how the tax money is spent etc.etc.
Geology ...
Geography ... physical shape and how countries interconnect ... populations and population growth ... stage of development ( country by country or region by region )
Accounting/economics ...
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We soon get on to "practical" subjects, such as metalwork, which is not really suited to be learnt solely from a book. So no more subjects needed ... better to restrict them to 10.
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Then there is the x volumes concerning behaviour. (That is interpersonal relations)
General behaviour ... I have temporarily made Dale Carnegie's book, "How to win friends and influence people" canonical (until the proper tome can be written of course).
Husband <--> Wife ... I have temporarily made Nancy Van Pelt's book, "Highly Effective Marriage" canonical (until the proper tome can be written of course).
Child <--> Parent ... ???
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Then there is a smallish book about First Aid
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These canonical book are not set in stone however. There will be a mechanism for updating them. We don't want a situation comparable to ... say ... people trying to define a full modern legal system based on just a handful of throw-away pronouncement by Mohammad.
chapter 1
1 ..... The sounds of béu 2 ..... Some interjections 3 ..... Consonant clusters 3.1 Word initial 3.2 Word medial 3.3 Word final 4 ..... Plurals and duals 5 ..... Thread Writing 6 ..... Numbers 6.1 Ordinal numbers 6.2 Fractional numbers 7 ..... Index
chapter 2
1 ..... Pronouns 2 ..... Building up a noun phrase (NP) 3 ..... The case system 3.1 -pi or pì 3.2 -la or lá 3.3 -ye or yè 3.4 -fi or fí 3.5 -lya or alya 3.6 -lfe or alfe 3.7 -s or sá 3.8 -ge or gé 3.9 -ho or hò 3.10 -ji or jí 3.11 -wo or wó 3.12 -n or nà 4 ..... Building up another type of NP 5 ..... 64 Adjectives 6 ..... Simple arithmetic 7 ..... Index
chapter 3
1 ..... When a noun qualifies another one 2 ..... How to bring a word into focus 3 ..... Questions 3.1 ..... How to ask a yes/no question 3.2 ..... How to ask a content question 3.3 ..... How to ask what is being done 4 ..... The 5 "specifiers" 5 ..... Some specifier - generic noun amalgamations 6 ..... The relativizers 7 ..... The R-form of the verb 7.1 ... Slot 1 7.2 ... Slot 2 7.3 ... Slot 3 8 ..... Index
chapter 4
1 ..... Copula's 1.1 ... sàu 1.2 ... láu 1.3 ... The copula of existence 2 ..... The verb complex or verb phrase 2.1 ... mazebai 2.2 ... seŋgebai 2.3 ... wepua 2.4 ... 4 suffixes -u, -va, -inda, -wan 3 ..... Index
chapter 5
1 The parish flags 2 The cremation oval 3 The sky garden 4 The parish hall 5 The town clock 6 The time of day 7 Index
chapter 6
1 ..... kolape 1.1 kolape jù 1.2 kolape tá 1.3 kolape tói 2 ..... Some linguistic terms in béu 3 ..... The parts of speech of béu 4 ..... The conditional 5 Verb chains 6 To give and to receive 6.1 The reciprocal construction 6.2 To allow or let 6.3 The passive construction 6.4 The causative construction 6.5 Who/what is responsible 7 Ambitransitive verbs 8 ..... The Calendar 9 ..... Index
chapter 7
1 ..... Word order and definiteness 2 ..... Adjectives and how they pervade other parts of speech 3 ..... Verbs and how they pervade other parts of speech 4 ................. Nouns and how they pervade other parts of speech 5 ..... A bit about adverbs 6 ..... Number of categories 7 ..... The transitivity of verbs in béu 7.1 Intransitive 7.2 Ambitransitive of type S=O 7.3 Ambitransitive verbs of type S=A and Transitive verbs 8 Index
chapter 8
1 ..... The -ana suffix 2 ..... The béu participles and the NP with the present participle core 3 ..... A discussion of English participles 4 ..... Start, Stop, Try 5 ..... Want 6 ..... The Imperative 7 ..... Verb chains 8 ..... The Subjunctive or the irrealis 9 ..... To think about 10 Some rubbish 11 ..... KENKO 12 ..... Examples of prepositions 13 .... -NI, NAI and -GO 14 ..... Getting the opposite by adding "u" 14.1 .... A prefix for adjectives 14.2 .... and a prefix for adverb 14.3 .... and a prefix for nouns 14.4 .... but an infix for verbs 15 Index
chapter 9
1 How concepts relate to parts of speech 2 ..... Word building 2.1 Word or -DAU 2.2 Person or -BU 2.3 Complex -ZA 2.4 Fellow or -PEU 2.5 Subject or -GA 2.6 Book or -LI 2.7 Tool or -GU 2.8 Machine or -NO 2.9 Belief/theory or -GAI 2.10 Wagon or -WAI 2.11 Building or -DO 2.12 Side or -KA 2.13 Area/Station or -KAU 2.14 Volume/Room or -KAI 2.15 A place/station or -HEU 2.16 A place/shop or -HA 2.17 Professional or -TAI 2.18 A container or -COI 2.19 Tradesman or -DA 2.20 Shop or -FU 2.21 Shopkeeper or -FAU 2.22 Stuff or -YO 2.23 Language or -BA 2.24 Metal or -MAI 2.25 Water or -ZE 2.26 Air/gas or -MO 2.27 Group or -BO 2.28 Member or -KE 2.29 Disease or ʔI 2.30 Fish or -PAI 2.31 Trees or -NYO 2.32 Fruit/nuts or -ZO 3 YīnYáng 3.1 Units 4 This is rubbish 5 Index
chapter 10
Diagrams to be updated
C2 ... D1 and D2 ... nús => ús ... yè = > kó ... alya = > alka
C3 ... all correct
C4 ... all correct
C5 ... all correct
C6 ... in the "calendar" ... v => f
C7 ... maybe a few things to change ....
Index
- Introduction to Béu
- Béu : Chapter 1 : The Sounds
- Béu : Chapter 2 : The Noun
- Béu : Chapter 3 : The Verb
- Béu : Chapter 4 : Adjective
- Béu : Chapter 5 : Questions
- Béu : Chapter 6 : Derivations
- Béu : Chapter 7 : Way of Life 1
- Béu : Chapter 8 : Way of life 2
- Béu : Chapter 9 : Word Building
- Béu : Chapter 10 : Gerund Phrase
- Béu : Discarded Stuff
- A statistical explanation for the counter-factual/past-tense conflation in conditional sentences
