sinti • verb, to do something reckless and ill-advised ndaji • verb, to fool, deceive, or trick someone à- • prefix, else, as in àvì, elsewhen ibas • noun, bread, charitable giving, alms ra • auxiliary verb, negates main verb, e.g. ahuá ira, “we weren’t asked”; incorporated as -r-, negates incorporating verb or noun, e.g. […]
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I’m kinda sorta existing again
But not taking on new commitments because apparently I have no idea when my truly horrible days will occur and they tend to spread a bit, wearing off a few days later. That said, my grandfather is going to be getting medical bills soon for my grandmother and a kind person set up a gofundme […]
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I really need to get my exchange fic written. Odds are not good. Wrote a poem: we are tired of the heavy places, the deep tirades, required graces, every word you ever spoke from the day my eyes awoke Conlanging I am hopelessly not up to the challenges, but I did do some work today. […]
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I’m hanging up my hat on running imzy.com/sff because no one’s reading and it’s a lot of work and a lot of time and I can rarely get enough backlog of published works to schedule more than a couple days in advance at most. On conlanging, Akachenti has now been proven to have had palatalization. […]
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1. Pitch Accent (Wikipedia) 2. Register (Wikipedia) 3. Issues in African Language Phonology by Larry M. Hyman and also here 4. Sign Language Phonology by Wendy Sandler 5. Bumped into a previous day’s reading again and want to make a note: Templatic morphology as an emergent property: Roots and functional heads in Hebrew by Itamar […]
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