Work has been intense, but I’m heading in for a weeklong holiday, so just trying to make it through to tonight. I’ve been formulating goals for the year, and stuff I want to deal with, but more on that in the days ahead when I’ve thought it through better. And while I’m thinking of it, […]
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Lexember Wrap-Up: 45 New Akachenti Words
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. […]
Read more...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 […]
Read more...Today
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. […]
Read more...Today’s Reading
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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