Conlang Link Dump

Link Dump – Linguistics Edition

May 15, 2013 – 6:10 PM

Sorry, this is going to light on pretty pictures and heavy on things that are of limited interest to most people. You don’t like it, there are thousands of other blogs you could be reading. Teach yourself linguistics From all things linguistics: Protolinguist resources: Teaching yourself morphology. Morphology is how words are put together. Protolinguist read more »

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Webcomics I read

May 2, 2013 – 12:24 PM

Updated Daily / Weekdays Schlock Mercenary From Wikipedia: ” It follows the tribulations of a star-travelling mercenary company in a satiric, mildly dystopian 31st-century space opera setting.” Origin of the The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries. Very funny, with great character design and creative aliens. Skinhorse by Shaenon Garrity (of Narbonic) and Jeffrey Channing read more »

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Stress means the wind wants me to drop shit on my toes

April 29, 2013 – 10:48 AM
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I don’t post about my personal life very often. I don’t think it’s very interesting to be honest. But this is one of those posts, sort of. I have depression and social anxiety. I’ve had it since I was a kid. Compared to a lot of people it’s not very bad. But when I’m stressed… read more »

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Writing

Progress Report 1 – Camp Nanowrimo, April 2013

April 15, 2013 – 1:07 PM

Hey, how about an excerpt? No context necessary. Many came to visit Conya when she was free, for the witch woman wasn’t needed to heal often. She passed her time preparing herbs and collars, sharing stories with anyone available to listen. When they drank, they were merry. He had seen fights spill into streets in read more »

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Site Stuff

Fiddling with things

April 13, 2013 – 11:31 AM

So there’s this botnet that’s attacking WordPress sites. I’ve installed a security plug-in to prevent that. I’m fiddling with settings now. If something breaks, let me know and I’ll change things back.

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Link Dump

Link Dump – Anodyne Edition

March 26, 2013 – 10:57 AM

History of Type – five part series – link starts at the beginning. Probably only interesting to type and design geeks (of which I am one). (from I love typography.) DIY String Art – I’m going to do this in my dining room. I’ve seen other tutorials but this particular result is really cute. (from read more »

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Conlang

My goals for Nyjichun

February 28, 2013 – 1:36 PM

In no particular order: To get to 500 words / lexicon entries, not counting affixes (I currently have 371 lexicon entries, but that’s including affixes) Write up a working grammar Sketch out the culture beyond ‘they live in the forest’ Make a map of the area Fix all the words I’ve marked as needing change read more »

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Conlang

How I write a lexicon

February 28, 2013 – 1:34 PM
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Yeah, another conlanging post. I’ll move on to other things sooner or later. So, I have the sprawling mess of a grammar for Ŋyjichɯn (which I need to upload again), but that’s not where I story my lexicon (or dictionary, or whatever you personally want to call it). The way I do it is culled read more »

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Link Dump – Serendipity Edition

February 22, 2013 – 8:39 AM

The Likeable Unlikeable Character – “Even an unlikeable character has virtues. Eeyore, the melancholy donkey in A. A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories, is not a likeable character at face value. He’s a moper and complainer and oozes negativity. But his unselfishness is a virtue that Milne used to endear us to him. Eeyore didn’t read more »

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Art

Sketch – “bushytail”

February 20, 2013 – 11:40 AM

  This is a critter that lives in the same area as the Nyji (the speakers of that conlang I’m working on). It looks like part squirrel and part red panda, and is the size of a raccoon. Yeah, the pose is lazy. So’s the critter.  

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