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@29-mikha.bsky.social helped me improve the side view

I need to like glue the neck to the collarbones tho

I think I still ought to move the head a little farther away from the center when it’s turned + the meshing needs to be adjusted

I’ve just sort of been doing it improv style, like to get a general sense of things

Only 1/2 eyes are currently rigged to close (whoops)

At one point it was just like this

Before those two changes

The 2nd one was sort of hard because the model wasn’t designed to have the jawline change at all (I stole + copied part of the neck)

The past two days I’ve been learning how to use Live2D

In which I’ve discovered that hair has gravity and faces are attached to our necks

(Model parts were from a textbook)

It is from "aromantic asexual" which is almost never said "asexual aromantic" because romantic orientation is almost always said before sexual orientation

Anyone else prefer the sound of "acearo" to "aroace"?

I know that the more common one is aroace for reasons potentially having to do with its etymology, but I feel like I'd come to the former if I were given the two words without context and told to put them together

It seems to have been shut down

Honestly no idea which one I’d assume

If you'd like to take a student's survey on attitudes to accents, one of ours has one right here: universityofkent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
You'll need to have spent most of your childhood in the UK to be eligible. #linguistics

I think me too, although I don’t say it a ton

in other news I assumed I had to do the entire lab section of my textbook but it turns out I only had to do sections of it

...which I learned after having spent like 12+ hours on the first 2 labs

Update: It's readable, but I think I ought to invest more in the math skill tree

Going to do this course first

If I’m telling a story, I’ll often use “‘s like”
“So, I walk into class, right? And the teacher, she’s like ‘who are you?’ cause I walked into the wrong room”
In a hypothetical about the future, “she’d be like”

I think Chants of Sennaar (from the games section) is very fun! Played it a while ago and got up to the Laboratories before getting stuck. The language of the Gardens sort of reminds me of Japanese

I’ve heard Heaven’s Vault is similar but I haven’t played it yet

I mostly cut out doomscrolling and just subscribe to relevant newsletters now

I find it also helps to delegate different platforms as places you will or won’t engage in doomscrolling on

That’s adorable! I want to try it out when I get home

Book
Hope it’s actually a gentle introduction

Go for it it’s fun

It was fun!

I want to see if I can convince my uninterested-in-linguistics friends to take it

They have strong opinions on the aesthetics of languages’ phonology for some reason

Yea and the answer is usually "theoretically anyone, but realistically the person you recommend it to is probably going to promise to read it and then forget about it"

My impression of Japanese non-fiction titles is that they're usually longer and/or more matter-of-fact

Although fiction titles can get very abstract (like "Chocolate Gourami Swimming in the Night Sky" or just "Confession")

Idk if I've read enough in English or Japanese to speak though

Ooh! I love the covers

Also yes the Japanese translation is kind of unimaginative ("How did the internet change language? A <language> map of the digital age")

But I think it fits right in with other books in the same genre

real but alternating between the same five garish button-down shirts instead of sweatpants

Day 1 of sem 2 of year 1 of college

Is going fine

Thinking about transferring sometime maybe
Dunno where I’d apply to

In katakana (the syllabary used, among other things, for loanwords)
インターネット intānetto
ネット netto

Online news is, for instance
ネットニュース nettonyūsu

I’m pretty sure the triangles are like those in the Tonnetz

I’m not quite sure what they mean (know not much about music), but that reminded me of the musical diagrams in 邦楽家のための音楽理論

#musicsky (is that a thing?) #japanese

Herling (1828) uses a musical notation for the analysis of complex sentences

About my bsky-picture: Simon Heinrich Adolf Herling (1780-1849) laid the groundwork for *Periodenbilder* in 1823. In a textbook from 1828 he used a music-score for the analysis of clausal subordination. This idea recurs throughout the 19thC in Germany. #linguistics

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