How to Speak Wenja : Ull's Scenes

After a brief break and an annoying and lengthy bout of the flu, we return in our journey through the cinematic scenes of Far Cry Primal. In honor of my being sick (swarga) and being plagued by a sickness (swargati), today we'll look at the head honcho of the Udam : Ull.

Ull is played by DeLaRosa Rivera, who is an awesome actor and awesome guy.

Udam Provocation

Since their scenes overlap, I'm reposting the Udam provocation here from our discussion of Sayla's scenes.

Sayla:

Winja wantar pacha, Udam shanti hasa.
Wenja hunter see, Udam near to-be.
Wenja hunter saw Udam nearby.
(Literally, "Wenja hunter sees, an Udam nearby to be.")

Gwamarsh ha waykarsh. Ma Winja chimashta.
Come-they so-that attack-they. But Wenja ready.
They come to attack. But Wenja are ready.

Ull!

Ull:

May malshashar Winja mana. U laykwa!  Shuta marita!
Don't soft-blood Wenja stay. COMMAND leave! Or see-you!
Softblood Wenja can't stay. Leave! Or you die!
(The word "softblood" is a compound of malsha "soft" and hasar "blood". Note that Ull is speaking directly to Takkar here by saying marita [vs. maritan "y'all die"])

U say salway gwan!
COMMAND them all kill!
Kill them all!
(This is curious -- the Udam lord is using an super archaic salway for "them all". In normal Wenja, the only pronoun that makes a difference between singular and plural is sa / say "he, she, it" / "them")

Villager:

Palhu Udam!
Many Udam!
Lots of Udam!

Sayla: 

Palhu hasmas!  Nu Takkar masi-ha yawda!
Many are-we! Now Takkar us-with fight!
We are many! Now Takkar fights with us!
(Note once again Sayla is using the "high" or "prestigious" form of Wenja by saying masiha "with us", vs. the more normal masha)

Prison Scene

Let me begin by saying: I LOVE THIS SCENE. One of the best in the game in my opinion.

You'll note some differences in Ull's language (and in the Udam's in general).

Udam have trouble saying "sh" sounds, and they usually pronouncing them as "ch" -- "mal-chah-sahr" (for malshasar).

Their rhythm is extremely staccato and broken. Ull has no problem throwing words together (i.e., making contractions) if it results in the staccato rhythm that he likes. Hence "N'Udam" and "T'Ull". 

Izila prisoner.:

Sakwi me.  Ke ne godeimi!  Ke ne godeimi!
Help me. Here not belong-I! Here not belong-I!
Help me. I don't belong here! I don't belong here!
(Our first Izila. Note that the word for "help" in Izila is the same in Wenja "sakwi". Ke ne godeimi in Wenja would be "Na cha gadayam.")

Ull:

T'Ull malshasar damshasu pacham.
Then-Ull softblood home-in see-I.
I see you in Wenja softblood home.
(Remember the rule from last time that damsha-su should be damshu? Well, the Udam don't. In fact, they "violate" all sorts of rules in their language. This is because we had originally conceived of their language as being a creole based on Wenja)

N'Udam dijamim gwashta.
Now-Udam land-throughout walk-you.
Now you walk in Udam land.
(Literally "throughout Udam land")

Udam kapalpurha swarga. Udam cha mari. 
Udam skull-fire-with sick. Udam here die.
Udam sick with skull fire. Udam die here.

Ayshta Ull Udami pan.  Malshasar krawhas Udam bal daha.
SUBJUNCTIVE Ull Udam-to feed. Softblood flesh Udam strong make.
Maybe Ull feed you to Udam. Softblood flesh make Udam strong.
(Literally "Were-you Ull to-Udam feed", this is a common use of the "subjunctive marker" aysh to mean "maybe")

T'Ull Winja malshasar gwijar.
Then-Ull Wenja softblood destroy.
Then Ull destroys Wenja softbloods.

Ull's Death

Ull:

Nuha!
Rawr!
(This was a word that DeLaRosa made up in our rehearsals.  It literally doesn't mean anything other than "Now in order to!"  Sounds cool, though.)

Nu Ull mari. Udam putila miha gwama.
Now Ull die. Udam child me-with comes.
Now Ull dies.  Udam child comes with me.

Udam swargatibi mari. Winja palhu mansim gwayfa.
Udam sickness-from die. Wenja many months-for lives
Udam die from sickness. Wenja live for many moons.

U shlaka. U shlaka.
Protect. Protect.
(Interesting cultural fact here. The Udam's verb for "protect" was shlaka which means to "protect (offensively)". The Wenja always use paska which means "to protect (defensively)". Just another way that we encoded different cultural worldviews in their language.)


Takkar:

U shlawdra gwash.
COMMAND free walk
Walk free.
(Takkar also says this after the mammoth's death in the first scene.)

SEO Keywords: How Better Keyword Research Gets You Better Results

What Are SEO Keywords?
Your SEO keywords are the key words and phrases in your web content that make it possible for people to find your site via search engines. A website that is well optimized for search engines "speaks the same language" as its potential visitor base with keywords for SEO that help connect searchers to your site. Keywords are one of the main elements of SEO.

In other words, you need to know how people are looking for the products, services or information that you offer, in order to make it easy for them to find you—otherwise, they'll land on one of the many other pages in the Google results. Implementing keyword SEO will help your site rank above your competitors.

This is why developing a list of keywords is one of the first and most important steps in any search engine optimization initiative. Keywords and SEO are directly connected when it comes to running a winning search marketing campaign. Because keywords are foundational for all your other SEO efforts, it's well worth the time and investment to ensure your SEO keywords are highly relevant to your audience and effectively organized for action.

Settling on the right SEO keywords is a delicate process involving both trial and error, but the basics are easy to understand. Here we’ll walk you through researching what your customers are looking for, discovering those keywords that will help you rank on a search engine results page (SERP), and putting them to work in your online content.

Finding Your Best Keywords for SEO
Most beginning search marketers make the same mistakes when it comes to SEO keyword research:

Only doing SEO keyword research once,
Not bothering to update and expand their SEO keyword list, or
Targeting keywords that are too popular, meaning they’re way too competitive.
Basically, SEO keyword research should be an ongoing and ever-evolving part of your job as a marketer. Old keywords need to be reevaluated periodically, and high-volume, competitive keywords (or “head” keywords, as opposed to long-tailed keywords) can often be usefully replaced or augmented with longer, more specific phrases designed not to bring in just any visitor but exactly the right visitors. (Who visits your site – particularly if they’re people who are actively looking for your services – is at least as important as how many people visit.)

And you’ve got to diversify. Here’s a tongue-twister that’s absolutely true: diversity is a key word in the keyword world. You’re not going to stand out if you find yourself using all of the same keywords as your competitors. Not only should you try new keyword search tools and keep track of the results, but you should feel free to experiment based on your own research – who else uses your keywords? And how do you make yourself stand out? By providing great content that truly answers the questions your prospective customers are asking with their keyword searches.

Making Your SEO Keywords Work for You
Now that you’ve found the best keywords, you need to put them to work in order to get SEO results (search-driven traffic, conversions, and all that good stuff).

So: how to proceed? On the one hand, SEO best practices recommend that you include relevant keywords in a number of high-attention areas on your site, everywhere from the titles and body text of your pages to your URLs to your meta tags to your image file names. On the other hand, successfully optimized websites tend to have thousands or even millions of keywords. You can't very well craft a single, unique page for every one of your keywords; at the same time, you can't try to cram everything onto a handful of pages with keyword stuffing and expect to rank for every individual keyword. It just doesn't work that way.

So how does it work? The answer is keyword grouping and organization. By dividing your keywords into small, manageable groups of related keywords, you’ll cut down on your workload (significantly), while still creating targeted, specific pages.

For example, let’s say you were running the website of an online pet store. You might be wise to create one keyword grouping for all your dog-related products, then one for all of your parakeet-related projects, etc. The next step would be to segment each individual group into smaller subgroups (parakeet cages, parakeet toys, parakeet snacks) and then even smaller groups for each type of product (low-fat parakeet snacks, luxury parakeet snacks… you get the idea). Now your pet store can create individual pages optimized for each small keyword group.

A marketer attempting to optimize a web page for the "gourmet parakeet snacks" keyword group should consider doing most if not all of the following:

Using the keyword in the title of the page
Using the keyword in the URL (e.g., online-petstore.com/parakeets/snacks/gourmet)
Using the keyword, and variations (e.g., "gourmet parakeet snacks"), throughout the page copy
Using the keyword in the meta tags, especially the meta description
Using the keyword in any image file paths and in the images' alt text
Using the keyword as the anchor text in links back to the page from elsewhere on the site
When optimizing your web pages, keep in mind that keyword relevance is more important than keyword density in SEO.

Manual keyword grouping can be very time-consuming, of course. Some of our own tools, which may prove helpful in a pinch, include our Keyword Niche Finder, which works just like a regular SEO keyword tool, but returns you suggestions pre-grouped into relevant clusters. We also provide a Keyword Grouper, which groups preexisting lists automatically.

Source: https://www.wordstream.com/

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Showing a PowerPoint file in your blog

This article is about options for showing the contents of a PowerPoint file inside your blog.

Previously I've described how to load content from MS Word to your blog.

But some people have material in PowerPoint (or other presentation software) files, that they want to show in their blog.   So far, I've identified three options for doing this.

These approaches should work on any PowerPoint formatted presentation, no matter what tool it was prepared with - except of course if it was Google Docs in which case you go straight to option 2.

Option 1: Each slide as an image

Follow these steps:

• In PowerPoint, choose Save-as, and choose an image format (eg .png).   
• When the system asks if you want all slides or just the current one, choose All.
• Upload all the image files that were created to your blog - it's your choice whether you put them all in the same post, or one-per-post.
  I usually upload them firstly to Picasa web albums or another picture-hosting service, and then just link from my blog to there)

At first, I thought that this was a backward approach.  But recently I wrote an article based on a presentation that I gave several years ago.   After trying various ways of displaying the presentation and  the article, I realised that I was trying to find a way to include all the comments that I made when I used the presentation face-to-face.  To do this, I needed to show each slide individually, so I used this option because it gives full control over what commentary goes with each picture.

Option 2: Convert to a Google Docs Presentation

This is described in detail in  Using Google Docs's publish-and-embed option - I believe it's better than trying to use Google Web-elements, because it achieves much the same thing, and takes one piece (web-elements) out of the equation.

Option 3 Copy and Paste

As with MS Word, copy-and-paste from PowerPoint to Blogger is NOT recommended, because the PowerPoint content can have all sorts of extra HTML codes attached to it, and these can cause negative effects in your blog.

But you may want to copy-and-paste, either because you don't want the content as images, or because you want other things like presenter notes etc that are not stored in the presentation slides.

To do this, you need to:

• Copy from PowerPoint, 
• Paste into a text-editor (eg Notepad in Microsoft Windows)
• Copy again from the text-editor
• Paste into your blog.

An alternative may be to export the presentation as an outline (ie rich-text or RTF format), and then convert it via Google Docs in the same way that you would for a Word document.   You would need to test this to check if it brings in the items that are stored outside of the slides.

Option 4   Use a slideshow host

Another approach would be to set up on account on SlideShare or a similar service that allows you to upload slideshows and gives you code that you can add to your blog in the usual way, which embeds the slideshow in your blog.  

I haven't tried this one out myself, but in theory at least it should work.

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How to Speak Wenja : Sayla's Scenes, part 2

Wapa Saylam gwamamas.

Let's return to Sayla.

Udam Provocation

Sayla:

Winja wantar pacha, Udam shanti hasa.
Wenja hunter saw, Udam near be-he
Wenja hunter saw Udam nearby.
(Literally, "Wenja hunter sees, an Udam nearby to be.")

Gwamarsh ha waykarsh. Ma Winja chimashta.
Come-they so.that attack-they. But Wenja ready
They come to attack. But Wenja are ready.

Ull!

Ull:

May malshashar Winja mana. U laykwa!  Shuta marita!
Don't softblood Wenja remain. IMPERATIVE leave! Or die-you!
Softblood Wenja can't stay. Leave! Or you die!
(The word "softblood" is a compound of malsha "soft" and hasar "blood". Note that Ull is speaking directly to Takkar here by saying marita [vs. maritan "y'all die"])

U say salway gwan!
IMPERATIVE them all kill!
Kill them all!
(This is curious -- the Udam lord is using an super archaic salway for "them all". In normal Wenja, the only pronoun that makes a difference between singular and plural is sa / say "he, she, it" / "them")

Villager:

Palhu Udam!
Many Udam!
Lots of Udam!

Sayla: 

Palhu hasmas!  Nu Takkar masi-ha yawda!
Many be-we! Now Takkar us-with fight!
We are many! Now Takkar fights with us!
(Note once again Sayla is using the "high" or "prestigious" form of Wenja by saying masiha "with us", vs. the more normal masha)

Village Victory

Sayla: 

Ku Udam gwanta?
QUESTION Udam kill-you?
You kill Ull?
(Seems that the translation of Udam was switched to Ull in post-production.)

Takkar:

Udam mari. Ull ati gwayfa.
Udam die. Ull still lives.
Udam are dead.  Ull still lives.

Sayla:

Apa laywam haya. Shaja palhu Winja marirsh!
Back north-to go. Today many Wenja die-they!
He goes back to the north. Many Wenja died today!

Takkar:

Shaja palhu Udam mari. Winja bal tasha. Gwayfamas.
Today many Udam die. Wenja strong stand. Live-we.
Today many Udam die. Wenja stand strong. We survive.

Sayla:

Shaws Ulls dawsam. Sa nakwayda shanchi parshay, salwa Winja marwa.
Ear Ull-of need-I. He never stopping before, all Wenja dead.
I need Ull's ear. He never stops until all Wenja are dead.
(Very difficult construction here in the second sentence.  Literally : "He, before ever stopping, all Wenja are dead")

Takkar:

Machi mi-karti jinafa.
Soon my-blade meet-he.
Soon he'll meet my blade.

Villager:

Winjayi. Winjayi.
Wenja-for. Wenja-for 
For the Wenja. For the Wenja.
(Normal Wenja language would say Winjay, but here it's very formulaic, along the lines of "Long live the King" or "God bless America.")

Sayla:

Winjayi.
Wenja-for.
For the Wenja.

Enter the Udam Land

Sayla:

Sa Udam palhu Winja hu-gwana.
That Udam many Wenja COMPLETIVE-kill
That Udam had killed many Wenja.

Cha, shaws tanhi tushi daha.
Here, ears screams quiet make.
Here, the ears make the screams quiet.
(Note the causative [the make to do something construction] is formed here with the helping verb daha 'do, make')

Akista, tanhi nakwayda shanchirsh.
Outside, screams never stop-they
Out there, the screams never stop.
(Because Sayla views the screams as actual creatures [i.e., as animate beings], we find a plural verb form shanchirsh.)

Aysh tanhi tushi shanchi, Takkar. Aysh Ull gwanta.
SUBJUNCTIVE screams quiet stop, Takkar. SUBJUNCTIVE Ull kill-you
You can stop the screams, Takkar. You can kill Ull.

Takkar:

Sa damshu wanam. 
Him home-in hunt-I
I hunt him in (his) home.
(The noun damsha + su regularly contracts to damshu)

Sayla:

Shrash! Gwanan sharu fadas si-damsha shlaka.
Yes! Killing rot fumes his-home protect
Yes! (But) deadly rot fumes protect his home.
(The adjective "deadly" literally means "killing")

Ma, mu wayda kwati sharu fadas shanchi.
But, me finds-it how rot fumes to-stop.
But, I know how to stop the rot fumes.
(I love how you say "to know" in Wenja; literally, "It finds me how to stop rot fumes")

Daru balya laywa-bi. U Udam dijam-su.
Wood leaf north-from. COMMAND Udam land-in.
Wood leaf from the north. (Go) in Udam land.
(Translated in the game as "yellow leaf", this originally was "wood leaf". Also note that in the translation it says "In Udam land" but she's really saying COMMAND in Udam land, hence more like "Go in Udam land.")

Takkar:

U ti-shawsi shwada, nasam.
COMMAND your-ears tell, return-home-I.
Tell your ears I come back.
(Best line of the game. Also note that the vowel -i appears after shaws since the following word begins with sh-. This is a regular process between all sibilants [s-, sh])

Udam Showdown

Sayla:

Mu wayda na-ta Udam gwana.
Me finds-it not-you Udam to-kill.

I know the Udam wouldn't kill you.

Takkar:

Hu-pararsh.
COMPLETIVE-try-they.

They have tried.
(Takkar used hu- here create a perfect "have", emphasizing that their attempts have failed)

Sayla:

Daru balya laywa-bi.
Wood leaf north-from.

Yellow leaf from the north.

Sharu fadas-bi, ta salwaya. Machi hawchata.
Rot fumes-from, you keeps-safe. Soon learn-you.

This makes you safe from the rot fumes. Soon you'll learn.

Tu Takkar Ullim wana. Nu si-shaws hinacha.
Then Takkar Ull-against hunts. And his-ear take.
Then Takkar hunts for Ull. And takes his ear.
(If Sayla had said Ull wana, that would've been "hunts Ull"; Ullim wana really means "Hunt Ull down")

Where's Da?

Sayla:

Ku Udam sanshta?
QUESTION Udam seek-you?

Are you looking for the Udam?
(Sayla is PISSED.  And this comes across in her language.  Here instead of her normal, flowerly sanshata, she says sanshta)

Takkar:

Kwar Da?
Where Da?

Where's Da?

Sayla:

Udam palhu Winja hu-gwana. Ma mash-damsham Udam gwar barta!
Udam many Wenja COMPLETIVE-kill. But our-home-into Udam beast bring-you!

Udam have killed many Wenja. But you brought an Udam into our home!
(Again, short forms: mash- for masi-, barta for barata.)

Takkar:

Da mas krawhadan daf, Winja bal daha sakwi.
Da us flesh-eater gives, Wenja strong to.make helps-he.
Da gives us rot bane. Helps to make Wenja strong.

(Krawhadan is short for krawha "flesh" + hadan "eater")

Sayla:

Nay!  Udam haywa tanhi bar.
No! Udam only screams bring.

No! Udam bring only screams.
(Again, short form bar)

Widum Winja Udam bararsh. Hay mazga darsh.
Forest-to Wenja Udam bring-they. Go, to-drown watch.

(Some) Wenja bring the Udam to the forest. Go, watch (him) drown.
(Short form darsh for darcha)