Monthly Archives: March 2022

The Syriac language / ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ / Leššānā Sūryāyā / Leshono Suryoyo is a particularly prestigious dialect of Aramaic. It is perhaps better called Syriac Aramaic, Syrian Aramaic, Syro-Aramaic or Classical Syriac. It is classified as a Northern Central or Northwestern Semitic language along with Hebrew, belonging then to the broader Afroasiatic language family. TheContinue reading “Syriacally speaking”

One of the reasons the Holocaust was quite such a horrific genocide and occurrence was the fact that the Nazis gaslighted their victims, mocking them, interfering with their reality, deliberately erasing the Jews’ own collective memory of who they were, and what their culture was. So tricky therefore is the business of picking up theContinue reading “The Dark Arts of Anti-Semitism and the Science of Being Jewish”

Israeli efforts to censor the Palestinian identity raise questions of what this conflict is really even ultimately about. Palestinians have protested against extensive human rights abuses, but it’s surely not a straightforward case of thirst for blood as the exasperated Palestinian rhetoric indicates, given Israel and the Jewish world’s dark history of the Holocaust. PrudentContinue reading “On Palestine”

The stony Russian arts of snagging have been vexing NATO and the West since World War II. Russian / Russkij jazyk / Russkiy yazyk / Русский язык is the Language of Precision and buzzes about sovershenstvo / совершенство / perfection / consummation. It makes Russia the trickiest of enemies, with the infuriating capacity to precisely,Continue reading “Sanctioning Russia & counterbalancing SovietSerendipity”

When you contemplate the enduring legacy of ancient Roman civilisation, you probably think of the Romans’ sophistication; their rich culture; their intellectual prowess, or even Roman architecture. All good, marvellous things. But there was a dark flipside to their culture and its legacy, widely asserted by their descendants, and considered by many sophisticates, to beContinue reading “The Romans invented racism.”

I realised as soon as I discovered the existence of the Buzz-Concept infinity that I am a raging Amerindiophile. Odd though it may seem to people given that Native Americans are known for being somewhat harsh, I am of course obsessed with them. I have decided to use my platform as the individual who discoveredContinue reading “🎁”

To be American is to be extravagant. Extra, even. When I say this, I don’t just mean US Americans, but all Americans of the Americas. North Americans and South Americans. Even Canadians. And Bolivians. What exactly do they all have in common? Well, they’re all characteristically extravagant. And why is that? 15-30,000 years ago, aContinue reading “Limited Companies & Unlimited Vibes”

Northern Europeans are dynamic and forward-thinking by nature: it just comes totally naturally. Well, the Vietnamese (and the Thai, along with the Laos and the Cambodians), are sociable, instead. The Vietnamese language accordingly buzzes primarily about sociability, or togetherness/fellowship. The secondary buzz-concept in Vietnamese, meanwhile, is virtue, or morality/righteousness. The primary buzz-concept of neighbouring Thai furthermore, is morality, with theContinue reading “Vietnamese Communism & the Fellowship of the VIỆTS”

Ever wondered where Kim Kardashian gets it from? … Tens of thousands of years ago, while we all still dwelled in Africa, the foundations for what would in due course become our ethnicities and races started to form pretty early on. Still fiercely united within one large ecosystem, speaking languages that were related to eachContinue reading “The Allure of Armenian Culture”

My great passion in life is philology / comparative linguistics / historical linguistics. It is an obsession I have had since I was teenager. It wasn’t a particularly fruitful interest, until I started the Buzz-Concept Project. The BCP made me fall head over heels in love with linguistics from a whole new perspective. I becameContinue reading “I distinguished four of the world‘s primary language families.”