That’s none of your concern, Dave.

like, just by itself, you have to admit that renting access to an LLM trained on someone's loved one's image and texts with the threat of taking that away someday is not a super smart idea. you have to recognize how you're preying on certain people, right?

I'm not doing Lexember this year, but I did create this useful ideophone today: sékát /ˈseːkaːt/ - depicts someone standing with their back to the wind (because the wind is cold, or blowing stuff, etc.).

#conlang

Lentil natto, then.

“A big part of the high stock prices is not a reflection of high future growth,” he said. Rather, it is a sign that A.I. is expected to boost productivity and shrink employment. “The firms all think they’re going to shed a lot of labor, and that’s why the profits will be high,” he said. And while the construction of data centers to power artificial intelligence is fueling economic growth now, these centers, once built, employ skeleton staffs.

The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...

A Siamese cat is lying beside his human's legs, body facing away but with his head turned up to rest on the leg and look back. He has a disappointed look. Unsatisfied.

Oscar also cannot be trusted alone with artificial greenery. Somehow he doesn't make the association between munching on artificial pine and the virulently green vomit that inevitably results.

I hope to use the phrase "inexplicably greasy porn" soon.

A Siamese cat is lying on his side next to his human. His backside is attached to the upper waist and his forehead is firmly pressed into the human's hip.

Oscar sometimes does a barnacle impression when I read in bed.

#Caturday #SiameseCats

Typo on p5, quote 11c ("characterized _ni_ a number of ways").

The Kílta verb "kimo" ("cut") is used in expressions like "break an agreement, promise, etc." Today I added the expression "tempa si kimo" ("cut care/caution/circumspection") which answers to English "throw caution to the wind."

#conlang

Side-eye of beef.

Treat counterfeit “humans” like counterfeit money.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

"The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea," Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, 2008, OUP.

With Kílta I went with síkkochál - "star-tail" (síkis - "star;" kochál - "tail").

For example, there's a section on Kílta's color terms which makes things clearer than trolling through the entire lexicon would do. Yesterday I added almost two pages on flavor and aroma constructions.

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There's not necessarily anything new in this section, but it does unite information spread across the lexicon and grammar in a way that makes some more covert patterns clearer. It also lets me expand on some things that I don't feel completely comfortable putting in the lexicon due to size.

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A few years ago I started adding a "Notes on Semantics and the Lexicon" section to my #conlang grammars. I put them after the lexicon, so starting on p.392 of the Kílta grammar — lingweenie.org/conlang/kilt... (as of Nov 23 2025). I got idea from one of Alexandra Aikhenvald's grammars.

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Elisp (though not all the time), some scheme, but effectively only CL these days.

A black cat is on his back legs with his front legs resting on the cameraman’s knee. He has pushed back fully from the knee with his head turned completely up and into the cameraman’s hand, so you can only see his chin.

Shadow was really into the head scratches.

#Caturday #BlackCats

As do you!

Nothing says "festive" like the Visitors from the Outer Dark.

Circassian has a native coinage: тхылъ /txıɬ̧/ ‘book’ = тхы- /txı-/ ‘write’ + -лъ /-ɬ̧/ receptacle suffix :)

I've been trying *not* to read it as an allegory for AI, just because I know from interviews the original ideas for the show happened years before genAI was everywhere. But it's really hard to avoid the comparison.

Shadow could not agree more.

A black cat is sitting on the floor. His body is partially facing away from the camera, but he is looking back and up, trying to move me with his mind to where the wet cat food is.

Shadow trying to convince me it could be time for tuna.

#Caturday #BlackCats

A grey-tuxedo tabby is sitting on a round scratching pad next to a bookcase. The background is very orange, which makes him stand out. He's staring off to the right a bit.

This is Badger, who left us early last year, at a ripe old age.

Everyone agreed he had a distinct expression, but no one could agree what that expression was: concern, sadness, disappointment. He was missing one canine, so he sometimes had an Elvis-style lip curl, and drooled when happy (often).

A cat is sitting in a garden, eyes squinted a bit, with its nos lifted into the wind. Image credit: Tatiana Stepanishcheva | iStock

No, I do mean sniffing the wind. The Flehmen response can happen when they're facing the ground. And there's no lip-curl for this.

I’m still thinking about options for that.

New Kílta ideophone: kínai-kínai /ˈkiːnaɪ̯-ˈkiːnaɪ̯/ - of an animal lifting its nose up to squint and sniff the air. #conlang

Mauta në rutisët ahëkar si mento — kínai-kínai
cat TOP grab-DETR-CVB.PFV air ACC smell.PFV - IDEO
"The cat stopped and sniffed the air."