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Rock tumbling slurry looks so tasty :(

#I’m hungry #daily thoughts

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Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh!

We carved some pumpkins tonight!! I took the longest, as per usual. I decided to make a Chinese inspired dragon!!!!

#oíche shamhna #me #I love carving pumpkins so much

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Conlang Progress Update - 7

Motivation

I have not been motivated for a while to work on this, but I finally found it! I did an internship over the summer, and I have another job now and school fulltime, but I will make slow and steady progress.

Prepositions

I made a preposition chart to help me visualise what I needed. These are just a few of what's to come. I was inspired by a Greek preposition chart that looked like this one.

Lexicon

I now have 101 words! I've been working on making names for countries and the continents as of now. I wanted to get creative with the names of continents, so I did a little research on pre-colonial continent names. I don't have word for Europe yet, because I am lazy but not lazy enough to transliterate it. Any ideas for Europe would be welcome.

Land Masses

Hilkharkus - Asia, literally "Silk March" or "Silk Region"

Krektïrnus - North America, literally "Turtle Continent"

Lækskeþarnus - Antarctica, literally "Cross Tundra" in reference to the Southern Cross constellation

Lïrïrëmus - Oceania, literally "Ocean Realm/Nation"

Måtïrnus - Africa, literally "Mother Continent"

Ræpïltïrnus - South America, literally "Jungle Continent"

Råkskeþarnus - The Arctic, literally "Bear Tundra" in reference the Ursa Major constellation

Tata for now <3

#conlang #conlang update #linguistics #language

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I swear every toponym in the US is like

Butchering of the Native name

FREEDOMland

Random Lake

Washington

named after some Confederate general

New European City

Some white dude's name

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Last Song: So Long, ABBA

Currently Watching: rewatching Dark

Currently Reading: Dune

Currently Obsessing Over: König (COD), Wizard101, walkable cities and urban planning, The Forest (the game), the German Political System

tagging: @upsidedownsoup, @moonlingua, & @crackersncheese3

Tag some people you'd like to know better. Tagged by @boxur

Last song: De Selby, by Hozier

Currently watching: nothing, just covinicing myself to watch Heartstopper and Red White & Royal Blue

Currently reading: Antígona, the greek story

Currently obsessing over: weirdly enough, nothing? Like, since December up until two weeks ago it was Six of Crows. But I don't have anything as of now, and it's bothering me

Tagging: @hummerous @hemlo-doggo @moa-broke-me @mrparable @robjectionable-content @tinkytonky @lilisouless @dafishaarnoldi

Ofc, no pressure, and if I haven't tagged you, you're still welcome!!

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why do men only watch movies at two different volumes?

so quiet you need subtitles

or

IMAX movie theater experience

#i just got home and my boyfriend is watching a movie and it’s so quiet I can here the leaves rustling in the wind and him folding laundry

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How can I decide on phonetic sounds for my alphabet?

Hello there! Thanks for the ask! :D

I assume you mean how do you assign your phonemes to your characters?

In that case I do it all by feel. If there’s a really cool letter I like and I want it to be the defining feature of the alphabet I usually assign it to one of the more common sounds in the language.

I often use certain shapes, themes, or motifs to signify certain phonemes. Here are some examples:

All liquids have boxy shapes as opposed to the other characters.

Voiced consonants always have a diagonal line.

Rounded vowels all have a U shape base.

Voiced consonants are flipped unvoiced consonants (I like using this sort of template).

This is not very naturalistic, which I don’t tend to go for most of the time. You could go all out and create glyphs that overtime were simplified and represented a phoneme in the word the glyph used to represent.

I hope this helps!!!

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Conlang Progress Update - 6

I haven't worked on much over the week. I am swamped with homework and work. Instead, I'll take this time to showcase what I o have that I have not shown yet.

Script

I decided to change up the script a little bit. Instead of intersecting lines I separated them. I feel as though it is more pleasing to the eye.

Pronouns

There are nine cases in my language. That might be a bit overkill, but I have simplified other parts of the language to compensate, I suppose. The cases consist of nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, benefactive, privative, instrumental, comitative, and vocative, respective to the chart below.

The 4th person pronoun acts as a general pronoun for indicative statements or in questions such as, "How do you say?". You would not translate as you in my language, you would instead use the 4th person pronoun. Similar to how German uses man in or French uses on. I don't really need the inflections of the 4th person pronoun, I got carried away.

For the 3rd person pronoun I decided to have one and not one for each grammatical gender because I would have seven 3rd person singular and possibly plural pronouns.

Grammatical Genders

There are seven grammatical genders. They are classified as such, food and plants, animals, nature, people, general/objects, place, ideas.

Examples of each

food and plants

Kïlæs - flower

animals

Kvïnïs - cat

nature

Mineres - mountain

people

Dïnas - person, man

general

Vilhamås - knife

place

Næirus - room

ideas

Såvntüs - sleep, rest

#language #conlang #conlang update #linguistics

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𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙚 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩

#vaporwave #cyberpunk

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I'm finally meal planning

This week I made some really good dishes! Only one of them I have made before. I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone and cook more from my wonderful cookbooks.

Monday, I just whipped up a stroganoff!! I'm trying to like tempeh, but the texture is so off to me.

I ended up making horchata on Tuesday and it was so fun and so worth it. I will be making horchata CONSTANTLY now.

Wednesday, I made cashew kibbeh from my North African cookbook!!

On Thursday I was so tired and had a lot of homework to do so we ordered out. :/

Yesterday I made the char kway teow (炒果条) and it was SO DELICIOUS. I will be making this more often. I got the recipe from a vegan cookbook.

For dinner today I'll probably make the kapusta z grochem, which is a Polish comfort dish. It's super good and I made it for a polish friend one time, and they loved it.

This is how my cashew kibbeh turned out! I think I did pretty well without seeing any photos of what people do with the designs on top hehe

#culinary #weekly meal log

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Some pain is never forgotten. You will carry it for the rest of your life.

#Dark #why is this show so freaking good

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#Dark

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#architecture #Dark

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Abandoned office building in suburban Chicago

#architecture #brutalism #i wanna live there

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Conlang Progress Update - 5

Haven’t been up to much today because I have a lot of homework to do and do other boring adult things :((( but I have been messing around with the script and trying to hone it!

The Script

This is just some incoherent words put together. I’m getting a feel for the script. It almost looks like words form a key shape. I’m digging it!!!

#linguistics #conlang #conlang update #calligraphy #conlang script #langblr #language

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#my memes

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Conlang Progress Update - 4

Writing System

I feel pretty good about the characters I have made! The script is written vertically. I'm still working on a handwritten script so that you don't have to only write in calligraphy. I still want to make all the letter names a plant, but I have nowhere enough words right now.

Derivation

I am working on more suffixes and prefixes to derive more words. So far I have the prefix "her-" which makes an adjective into a verb.

For example:

Gjalt - large, big

Hergjale - to enlarge, to grow

A suffix I have added it "-ym-" which takes a verb and turns it into the product or result of the verb, similar to "-age" in English.

For example:

Kåre - to cook

Kårymæs - food

#linguistics #conlang #conlang update #calligraphy #langblr #language