Linguistic Archaeology: The Ripper Victims

 Ripper Victims

1. Mary Ann Nichols
2. Annie Chapman
3. Elizabeth Stride
4. Catherine Eddowes
5. Mary Jane Kelly

Ripper Victims family names
1. Nicols
2. Chapman
3. Stride
4. Eddowes
5. Kelly



Popularity of Use
A      %     E     %      I      %     O      %       U        %
1  20%     3  60%    2  40%    2  40%       0    0%

B      %     C     %      D      %     F      %       G        %
0    0%      2 40%     2  40%     0    0%       0     0%

H      %     J     %      K      %     L      %       M        %
1   20%    0   0%      1  20%     2 40%       1     20%

N      %     P     %      Q      %     R      %       S        %
2   40%    1 20%      0     0%    1  20%       3   60%

T      %     V     %      W      %     X      %       Y        %
1  20%     0   0%       1  20%     0    0%       1   20%

Z      %
0    0%


Popularity of use
60% E, S:
40% N, L, D, C, I, O, E, S: Nicols,
20% T, W, Y, P, R, H, K, M, A, N, L, D, C, I, O, E, S: Chapman, Stride, Eddowes, Kelly,
0% V, X, Z, Q, J, B, F, G, U

Conclusion: Mary Ann Nicols is the dominant cultural representative in the group. She was also the first victim. If there is something about them that is a shared genetic trait from the male side of their family, she has a higher genetic representation of that trait.

Distantly related to Nichelle Nicols who less than a century later played Uhura on Star Trek. Lets not assume a time traveller just yet.

Linguistic Archaeology: Ants

 

Ant in almost every language
1. Ant
2. Mier
3. gunidani
4. namla
5. *P* (assamese)
6. qarışqa
7. Inurri
8. Muraška
9. Pim̐paṛā
10. Mravka
11. hulmigas
12. Nyerere
13. Mǎyǐ
14. Mrav
15. Mravenec
16. Myre
17. ent
18. Ant (esperanto)
19. Langgam
20. Muurahainen
21. Fourmi
22. Formiga
23. ch’ianch’vela
24. Ameise
25. Myrmínki
26. Hormiga
27. Kīḍī
28. Foumi
29. Aneti
30. NM* (hebrew)
31. cheentee
32. Hangya
33. Maur
34. Nta
35. Semut
36. Seangán
37. Formica
38. Ari
39. Iruve
40. Qumırsqa
41. sramoch
42. Ikimonyo
43. gaemi
44. Gêrîk (kurmanji kurdish)
45. *R*P* (sorani kurdish)
46. mod
47. Enseenene
48. vitsika
49. urumbu
50. popokorua
51. Muṅgī
52. Shorgoolj
53. purwatsate
54. Kamilā
55. ANT (pashto)
56. M*R*E (persian)
57. Mrówka
58. Kīṛī
59. Furnică
60. Muravey
61. Loi
62. A* (sanskrit)
63. Bohloa
64. *NT (sindhi)
65. kūm̆biyā
66. Mravlja
67. Quraanjo
68. Sireum
69. Chungu
70. Myra
71. Mūrca
72. Eṟumpu
73. KYPMYC*A (tatar)
74. Cīma
75. Md
76. *S (tigrinya)
77. Karınca
78. Garynja
79. Murakha
80. *Y*NTY (urdu)
81. Chumoli
82. Con kiến
83. Imbovane
84. murashke
85. Edan
86. Intuthwane


Popularity of Use
A      %     E     %      I      %     O      %       U        %
51 60%    25 29%   38 44%  16 18%      27 31%

B      %     C     %      D      %     F      %       G        %
4    4%     13 15%    4    4%     5    5%       12 14%

H      %     J     %      K      %     L      %       M        %
14 16%    4   4%      17 20%   9  10%       46 54%

N      %     P     %      Q      %     R      %       S        %
31 36%    7   8%       3    3%     42 49%     14 16%

T      %     V     %      W      %     X      %       Y        %
12 14%    9 10%      3    3%      0    0%      12 14%

Z      %
0   0%

Popularity of use
60% A: A* (sanskrit),
52% M, A:
49% R, M, A:
44% I, R, M, A: Ari,
36% N, I, R, M, A: NM* (hebrew),
31% U, N, I, R, M, A: Inurri, Maur,
29% E, U, N, I, R, M, A: Mier, M*R*E (persian),
20% K, E, U, N, I, R, M, A: Kīṛī,
18% O, K, E, U, N, I, R, M, A:
16% S, H, O, K, E, U, N, I, R, M, A: Sireum, *S (tigrinya), Murakha, murashke, Muraška, Muurahainen, Ameise, Enseenene,
15% C, S, H, O, K, E, U, N, I, R, M, A: Karınca, Con kiến, Cīma, sramoch, Mūrca,
14% Y, T, G, C, S, H, O, K, E, U, N, I, R, M, A: Chungu, Myra, *Y*NTY (urdu), ANT (pashto), *NT (sindhi), Ikimonyo, gaemi, Gêrîk (kurmanji kurdish), Muṅgī, Nta, Semut, Seangán, cheentee, Hangya, Myrmínki, Hormiga, Aneti, Nyerere, Mǎyǐ, Myre, ent, Ant (esperanto), Ant, gunidani,
10% V, L, Y, T, G, C, S, H, O, K, E, U, N, I, R, M, A: Muravey, Loi, Chumoli, vitsika, Kamilā, ch’ianch’vela, Iruve, Mrav, Mravenec, Langgam, Mravka, hulmigas, namla,
8% P, V, L, Y, T, G, C, S, H, O, K, E, U, N, I, R, M, A: Eṟumpu, KYPMYC*A (tatar), *R*P* (sorani kurdish), popokorua, *P* (assamese), Pim̐paṛā,
5% F, P, V, L, Y, T, G, C, S, H, O, K, E, U, N, I, R, M, A: Formica, Furnică, Fourmi, Formiga, Foumi,
4% J, B, D, F, P, V, L, Y, T, G, C, S, H, O, K, E, U, N, I, R, M, A: Imbovane, Edan, Bohloa, kūm̆biyā, urumbu, Shorgoolj, mod, Kīḍī, Md, Garynja, Mravlja,
3% W, Q, J, B, D, F, P, V, L, Y, T, G, C, S, H, O, K, E, U, N, I, R, M, A: Quraanjo, Intuthwane, purwatsate, Mrówka, qarışqa, Qumırsqa,
0% Z, X





Originating in the A-M linguistic group;

A-M subgroup                         Sex          %        Dev. Chain
Mask                                                       80%     (A; M; K; S; U)
Mother                                                    75%      (A; M; E; I)
East African Tribes                                75%     (A; M; S)
Champion                                                71%      (A; M; N; P; I; O)
Papuan                                       F          68%     (A; M; E, I; R, N)
Ngoni                                         M          66%     (A; M; L; E, I, O, K, N)
Ant                                                            60%    (A; M; R; I; N; U; E)
Honey                                                      52%    (A; M; I; N; E)

The earliest partial is less than 60% with A* (sanskrit). The earliest complete Ant is at 44% with Ari (japanese).
A partial at 36% NM* (hebrew), Then at 31% with Inurri (basque) and Maur (icelandic).
Again at 29% with Mier, M*R*E (persian), and at 20% with Kīṛī (punjabi).

A bandgap at 18% before the return of Ants at 16%.
Peak Ant encounters is at 14%. Declining down to 3%.

Short Fiction: Relay Six

 

R E L A Y   S I X

The Relays are about a light-year apart. Transports are accelerated up for half a light-year before the relay station switches the laser over to the next outgoing transport. Incoming transports are decelerated from the midway point when the sails are adjusted to intercept the decelleration beam. RELAY SIX sits near the outer edge of the Oort cloud serving as the gateway to the Centauri system.

An approaching transport was in its last hour of deceleration.

The Automated alarm sounded though no one could hear it. When it stopped the passenger cryopods began entering their day cycle. Cryopod P five three four eight nine two activated its interior lighting illuminating the face of the passenger within.

Caroline's chest burned with increased activity. Her throat felt every breath as though she was choking on some uneaten scrap of a meal. The defrosting taste of starch molecules insisted it was the baked potatoes from relay station five mixed with... she forced herself over the edge of the cryo and vomited cryo fluid missing the waste capture.

The pain in her chest had moved to become a knot in the muscle above her right lung. She would need to ask the station doctor about it.

"Holy..." The pain wasn't going away anytime soon. "...fuck."

A voice alerted the passengers: "Sorry folks... the transport was swept by a gamma ray burst from a pulsar a few years back."

"What?" Caroline was confused. The passenger transport was heavily shielded.

"Penetration was full dose." The people around her were all exhibiting signs of having lost hair. Caroline turned to look at her cryopod. There was hair in the cryopod. A lot of it."Normally you could just get treated at medical on arrival."

"Oh God..." Caroline felt for her teeth and gums. "...if we've taken a fatal dose."

"It also had sufficient force on your solar sails that you were pushed off deceleration beam." The traffic controller's voice paused to take a breath. "And because we need to refurbish the transport at each relay station we can't just put you back in cryo."

"No..." Caroline considered the scenario. It wasn't supposed to be like this. "No."

"There are special red satchel emergency meals that contain a painless poison." The voice was calm. "They are there for precisely this scenario."

Caroline stared at the people around her. Passengers embraced family members. But she was alone. A search of her personal storage and she found the red satchel. The very idea that they would commit suicide was abhorent. Terrifying. A those around her began to cry.
The cries of the others were too much and Caroline simply climbed into her personal storage and pulled the outer door shut. Her slim build allowed her to sit down and place her hands over her ears.

It seemed like hours. People crying. Screaming. Objecting with all their previously surpressed emotions. There was nothing left.

When Caroline woke it was silent. She hugged her red satchel tighter. She wasnt hungry yet. Just sleep a little longer. One more day.

"There were a lot of kids on this one." A woman's voice roused Caroline. "We should have waited for the next transport."

"I'm sorry Paula..." The voice of the Relay station controller startled Caroline. "...but we all knew this would happen the moment we acted to declare independence from Earth."

"Yeah... but there were so many kids." The voice of Paula was in tears.

"It was fortunate they took a gamma-ray burst on route as we could convince them they had nothing to live for." The Controller seemed pleased. "But when we turned off the deceleration laser there was a transport at the mid point, and a second launching from Relay five."

"And Relay five wont know the laser is down for a year."

"Neon!" Another male voice spoke over the Comms. "There is a problem."

"What is it Trey?" The Controller was named Neon? Caroline focussed on remembering the names of her Terrorists. Neon. Paula. Trey.

"We switched off the deceleration laser but the Fusion reactor ejected the instant we did it." There was an automated voice in the background saying something. "Its telling us we have twenty-five minutes."

"Fuck." Caroline tasted blood in her mouth from the radiation as she smiled at Neon's situation. "Paula... reset the cryopods in this section while I go deal with the thing that's gonna kill us."

"Okay." Paula was quickly alone and Caroline maneuvered herself into a position where she could observe how to reset a cryopod.

After a while of watching Paula reset cryopods Caroline caught sight of a man entering the transport section and approach Paula. He seemed distressed.

"Paula." Neon was very good looking for a Terrorist. "How many cyopods have you reset?"

"Two." The sound of the transport exterior hatch sealing and the transport shunted forward to launch into the Centauri system. "What was that?"

"I set the automated launch for the Transport." Neon had apparently abandoned Trey and the others. "Get in your cryopod... we are leaving."


Caroline waited for the pair to enter cryo before emerging from concealment. "Now it's my turn."

The sudden force of the launch caused Caroline to black out.

Board with Games: Rise

 

A bodgy map of Africacompared to the real thing that looks like a skull in profile and is probably evidence that it doesnt exist.

A set of alphabet cards to draw from.

Got to build this game and see how big a box I need for it.

And then I public domain it. A fun game about trading and raiding lanto share language. Once you spell canoe you can paddle to Madsgascar.