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It’s not too late the corpus is alive

You know I love an alphabet but I think 隶书 may be the greatest achievement in the history of writing

There are a million tough cases, that’s what the dictionary is for. But because there’s an element of common sense, there is also lots of room for debate and revision

The real new rule is: use your common sense. Learn to spell words and suffixes individually and glue them together sensibly

And because the syllable “ally” doesn’t change the pronunciation of “artistic” before it, the i is allowed to stay. This leads to the official rook spelling of “artistically”: art.ㅤist.ik.lii

Second, replace weak vowels with non-ə letters where appropriate. Because the weak vowel appears in the last syllable of “artistic”, the last-syllable rule applies and it’s written with an i: art.ㅤist.ik

First, line up the syllable boundaries with morpheme boundaries: *art.ㅤist.ək.lii. But this still isn’t quite right

That would be impossible to remember. It’s obviously “art” with a series of suffixes: “art-ist-ic-ally”. So we make two changes to the spelling: one for syllable boundaries, and one for representing weak vowels

Take “artistically” as an example. I pronounce it [ɑɹˈtɪstɪkli] so as an atom I would spell it *ar.tis.tə.klii

The new set of rules is much more complicated and impossible to apply consistently, but relies on common sense in a way I think is helpful for people trying to learn. I’ll try to illustrate the gist with one example

For a lot of reasons, this approach doesn’t work

The current version of the dictionary attempts a compromise rule: maybe I can define a closed set of official suffixes. Only these would allow differences between how a word would be spelled if it were an atom and how it is spelled officially, and only if the suffixes are appended cleanly

I can’t convince my own brain to treat each word as an atom. And if I can’t, why would others? It must be fors.ㅤing

It’s impossible to ignore, for example, that “forcing” is “force-ing”. As an atom, the pronunciation [ˈfoɹsɪŋ] would imply a spelling of *for.sing. But when writing the coda of the first syllable, my wrist wants to write the r narrowly to accommodate the following s

My original intent was to spell each word as its own entity, paying attention only to its pronunciation (the way *I* pronounce it) in careful speech. This is basically impossible, because it is so obvious that parts of words get reused so often

It’ll be official when I update the dictionary, but I want to explain some of my thinking behind the upcoming morphology updates before then since it’ll take a while

relatable four panel comic

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial and promised gift of Walter C. Sedgwick in memory of Ellery Sedgwick Sr. and Ellery Sedgwick Jr.

One of Six Ordination Certificates (ninka) [mounted on a board] https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/362236

You’re welcome!

Oh yeah makes sense. Is Link on blacksky?

Did this image offload? I’ve not been saving any of the images I upload here

You win! Your prize? Incessant stream of symbols.

Hell yes

I don’t usually write things that would have looked better with a ballpoint but here we are

There’s some pretty heavy regional variation in 體
en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%AA%A8

tracks and footprints are the simple reminder that there is meaning in the dirt

california wild grape leaves and fruit, covered in raindrops. the leaves are green and red and yellow

shiny manzanita trunk in the rain. the bark is bright red and smooth

pine needles, water drops, and a trail

a spiderweb over some dried leaves, with huge water droplets that look like gems

Fall colors + rain