I have always wanted a tattoo since I was a kid. It was on my list of goals before I died. I wanted to get a saying like "And so the lion fell in love with the lamb". But i didnt want it in English. The love of my life is from Syria and speaks Armenian. So, I had the brilliant idea to get that saying above in Armenian. Problem is I do not know how to write it in Armenian and I can't find it on Google. ahh! I need help.

I was thinking of an idea for a new conlang. It's still at the bare minimal stage right now, but here's the basic idea.
For a background of the concepts, read my other blog entry about functionals and combinators
I was thinking it would be neat if there was a language that would use combinatory logic to form meaning in the language. This language would have an inflecting nature and new words would be formed by combining other words in such a way that a verb is specific to the type of objects it operates on and can create sentences by doing function composition

so, for example, a sentence like "I am giving this to her" the sentence can be thought of in classical lambda calculus as give (I this her) . I give this to her
or in other words, a verb give, that takes three arguments, specifically I, this, and her.
now with currying, you can convert this into a function composition, something like...
give_to_her(transfer_this(I)) in which case two verbs "transfer_this" and...

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I guess this is a good place to give an introduction to who I am, if anyone is interested.

I am a teenager living in a linguistically stagnant American suburban area with an excellent public school system that teaches French, Spanish and (recently) Chinese. I plan to become a surgeon, but linguistics has evolved into one of my favorite hobbies, thanks primarily to this forum.

About two and a half years ago, I was searching for a translating engine when Google made a terrible mistake and led me to Unilang. I was also looking for something to read for my French Honors work, so I started to browse in the French boards and liked what I saw. I kept coming back every week just to see what was going on, and only recently did I decide that I wanted to be an active participant.

I guess the...

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Kristiyano ako.

Ama ako ni Zoe.

Asawa ako ni Marilyn.

Anak ako ni Roberto at Rola.

Kapatid ako ni Mae, Michael, Mike at Miko.

Guro ako ng Tagalog sa CLSC.

Sino ba ako?

In 2003, I earned my TEFL certification to teach English as a Second Language from the Boston Language Institute. In addition to teaching, I am a professional writer with a strong business and technology background. I look forward to helping all that want to learn English.

Sincerely,
Alan