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can you people go to a different school please

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A System of Categorization

1. Focus

focus is the state or quality of being the active element of reference.

2. Ords

an ord is a level which contains one or more horts.

2.1. Interordal Relations

ascension/ascending is the relation from an ord to any superord.

descension/descending is the relation from an ord to any subord.

stansion/standing is the relation of the focus ord to itself.

a superord is an ord in question ascending from the focus ord.

a subord is an ord in question descending from the focus ord.

a coord is an ord in question standing in the focus ord.

3. Horts

a hort is a container of one or more jects.

3.1. Interhortal Relations

a superordal hort or superhort is a hort ascending from the focus hort.

a subordal hort or subhort is a hort descending from the focus hort.

a coordal hort or cohort is a hort standing in the focus hort's ord.

4. Directness

directness is the quality of being in an immediately adjacent ord. one can speak of directly ascending and directly descending for ords, or direct superhorts and direct subhorts.

5. Jects

a ject represents the common qualits among one or more atoms.

5.1 Interjectal Relations

a coject is a ject in the same hort as the focus ject.

two or more jects which share at least one atomic qualit are said to be normal jects.

completely dissimilar jects are said to be strange jects.

6. Atoms

an atom contains one to the qualitive limit of qualits.

7. Qualits

a qualit is the primitive unit of consideration. DON'T press me further on what qualits are.

the qualitive limit is how many qualits are present total in the system.

8. Alternative Terms

qualits may be described variously as infratomic, infrajective, infrahortive, and infraordinal.

any structure above qualits may be described as epiqualitive.

atoms may be described as infrajective, infrahortive, and infraordinal.

any structure above atoms may be described as epiatomic.

jects may be described as infrahortive and infraordinal.

any structure above jects may be described as epijective.

horts may be described as infraordinal.

ords may be described as epihortive.

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pretty predictably predicable precaution of a predator

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for a conlang i want to have unexplained toki pona substrate vocab

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How to getting into linguistics for beginners?

honestly i dont really know. i learned most of what i know in high school from wikipedia just because i wanted to. eventually i discovered conlanging and just practiced and refined what i knew and learned more

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#chapter 1 of distance in language ed. sonnenhauser and meermann

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#sweet thing. sink lover

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2024.4.27

#funny thing

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whatever you think about new york, it was right to invent and or popularize the wide, foldable pizza slice

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they have run into problems further down the line by making a false distinction earlier on !!!

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Advice/hard truths for writers?

The best piece of practical advice I know is a classic from Hemingway (qtd. here):

The most important thing I’ve learned about writing is never write too much at a time… Never pump yourself dry. Leave a little for the next day. The main thing is to know when to stop. Don’t wait till you’ve written yourself out. When you’re still going good and you come to an interesting place and you know what’s going to happen next, that’s the time to stop. Then leave it alone and don’t think about it; let your subconscious mind do the work.

Also, especially if you're young, you should read more than you write. If you're serious about writing, you'll want to write more than you read when you get old; you need, then, to lay the important books as your foundation early. I like this passage from Samuel R. Delany's "Some Advice for the Intermediate and Advanced Creative Writing Student" (collected in both Shorter Views and About Writing):

You need to read Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, and Zola; you need to read Austen, Thackeray, the Brontes, Dickens, George Eliot, and Hardy; you need to read Hawthorne, Melville, James, Woolf, Joyce, and Faulkner; you need to read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Goncherov, Gogol, Bely, Khlebnikov, and Flaubert; you need to read Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Edward Dahlberg, John Steinbeck, Jean Rhys, Glenway Wescott, John O'Hara, James Gould Cozzens, Angus Wilson, Patrick White, Alexander Trocchi, Iris Murdoch, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, Vladimir Nabokov; you need to read Nella Larsen, Knut Hamsun, Edwin Demby, Saul Bellow, Lawrence Durrell, John Updike, John Barth, Philip Roth, Coleman Dowell, William Gaddis, William Gass, Marguerite Young, Thomas Pynchon, Paul West, Bertha Harris, Melvin Dixon, Daryll Pinckney, Darryl Ponicsan, and John Keene, Jr.; you need to read Thomas M. Disch, Joanna Russ, Richard Powers, Carroll Maso, Edmund White, Jayne Ann Phillips, Robert Gluck, and Julian Barnes—you need to read them and a whole lot more; you need to read them not so that you will know what they have written about, but so that you can begin to absorb some of the more ambitious models for what the novel can be.

Note: I haven't read every single writer on that list; there are even three I've literally never heard of; I can think of others I'd recommend in place of some he's cited; but still, his general point—that you need to read the major and minor classics—is correct.

The best piece of general advice I know, and not only about writing, comes from Dr. Johnson, The Rambler #63:

The traveller that resolutely follows a rough and winding path, will sooner reach the end of his journey, than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hours of day-light in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.

I've known too many young writers over the years who sabotaged themselves by overthinking and therefore never finishing or sharing their projects; this stems, I assume, from a lack of self-trust or, more grandly, trust in the universe (the Muses, God, etc.). But what professors always tell Ph.D. students about dissertations is also true of novels, stories, poems, plays, comic books, screenplays, etc: There are only two kinds of dissertations—finished and unfinished. Relatedly, this is the age of online—an age when 20th-century institutions are collapsing, and 21st-century ones have not yet been invented. Unless you have serious connections in New York or Iowa, publish your work yourself and don't bother with the gatekeepers.

Other than the above, I find most writing advice useless because over-generalized or else stemming from arbitrary culture-specific or field-specific biases, e.g., Orwell's extremely English and extremely journalistic strictures, not necessarily germane to the non-English or non-journalistic writer. "Don't use adverbs," they always say. Why the hell shouldn't I? It's absurd. "Show, don't tell," they insist. Fine for the aforementioned Orwell and Hemingway, but irrelevant to Edith Wharton and Thomas Mann. Freytag's Pyramid? Spare me. Every new book is a leap in the dark. Your project may be singular; you may need to make your own map as your traverse the unexplored territory.

Hard truths? There's one. I know it's a hard truth because I hesitate even to type it. It will insult our faith in egalitarianism and the rewards of earnest labor. And yet, I suspect the hard truth is this: ineffables like inspiration and genius count for a lot. If they didn't, if application were all it took, then everybody would write works of genius all day long. But even the greatest geniuses usually only got the gift of one or two all-time great work. This doesn't have to be a counsel of despair, though: you can always try to place yourself wherever you think lightning is likeliest to strike. That's what I do, anyway. Good luck!

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Horse loves butt scratches

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#youre funny and awesome for real

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guy who only gets food for pickup in bad weather so delivery people dont have to go through it

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Bro I'm waiting at the pizza place for my pizza and one of the delivery guys was straight up telling an anecdote involving me ?! I heard my whole name and address

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need to make a distinction between "pdfs i wish id want to read" and "pdfs i want to read" and delete the first one

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need to start doing worldbuilding notes-esque mini videos on grammar ideas

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