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Mom - free software geek - Critter - conlanger

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This is amazingly useful, any objection if we copy the format?

30.09.2025 23:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Poetry that rhymes and has absolutely no attempt to scan. A staple of local newspapers' community contributions in the 20th century.

27.08.2025 21:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What 6-8 months thing?

26.08.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You can also try #neography, but I find a lot more neographies on, for example, Tumblr than I do on Bluesky.

08.08.2025 11:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Potential noun classes there?

07.07.2025 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I had already quit using it but I imagine deleting the app is worth it if that will show up in their metrics somewhere.

29.04.2025 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've been thinking that I need to create Merechi artifacts to give away at LCC... and some to send to conlangers that can't make it as well of course!

01.03.2025 01:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Interestingly we also say "do a shot" of alcohol

18.02.2025 18:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm often curious about the pronunciations on these. Do you really feel that if English had a word "micker", it would rhyme with "meeker" and not "wicker"?

12.02.2025 07:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's a little unclear whether the images of scripts were meant to illustrate the issues you went over, or were examples of what "good enough for review" would look like.

11.02.2025 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When I was last at the store there were barely any in stock, a meter x a meter or two of bare refrigerated shelf. That's not something I ever saw in the past.

11.02.2025 02:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ah, thanks!

09.02.2025 02:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why does the abstract for the article list an 8th clause type, "hyparctic", which is never referenced again in the paper?

09.02.2025 01:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The similarity is in the slidy, numb feeling that licorice, fennel, anise and celery all produce on the tongue. Do you experience that numbing from all or any of those?

28.01.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You left off "fennel, but fainter", which is the correct answer! It's in the same taste family as fennel, licorice and anise, but far weaker than the others. It's lovely but better as grated up celery root used as a spice, because the texture of the stalks sucks.

28.01.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It will be spoken slower and more carefully, might avoid direct 2nd person references especially directed upward, and if there's old history of living near a more dominant culture, might have a number of old loanwords particularly re: government/religion

25.01.2025 17:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Have you had anything made with celery root? The taste is concentrated in the root, you might be able to experience it that way.

25.01.2025 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I can remember when this sentence first became a translation challenge on the Conlang-L list.

23.01.2025 01:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Very happy with my progress on my #merechi #conlang dictionary. Tonight I implemented the sort mode for the native orthography. They use a two-tiered sort that first groups the words strictly by their consonant sequence. รฉtial, tรกla, tatรกla, tol- and telรญ show up together and I could not be happier.

20.01.2025 07:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Conlangs from merechitรญv This is the blog for my conlangs, primarily the one I call merรจchi. This conlang has been on a slow burn since the 1980s, but has a cousin-once-removed conlang called Mirexu which is even slower going, but more linguistically sound.

Started a Tumblr for my #conlangs at merechitiv.tumblr.com!

06.01.2025 05:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

-v, mostly. -e in some verbs.

04.01.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

gรฉrodic teselรกva
dog-ACC PT-stroke-PF-1.SG

รญlpuc/pรกilac tenefรญshiva
husband-ACC/wife-ACC PT-hug-PF-1.SG

04.01.2025 19:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Honestly it's very nostalgic to be gathering the crumbs of an abugida I can't get instant documentation on, and hoarding them like a mouse. I spent the entire 80s doing just that in every library reference section.

02.01.2025 07:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is there anywhere we can read more about Vorgath and the writing system?

01.01.2025 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I almost feel like I'm getting the hang of this writing system

01.01.2025 15:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The... rising tide of what, now? :D

01.01.2025 15:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

nรบketic รฒmbali kicheldร vfa, ni รณrpatic kerรกtli
"We will smoke the cod but salt the herring"
Literally, "Cods with smoke we will preserve, but herrings with salt"

nรบke รณrpanic rรกchen, te hรณfepa tรบlpanic rรกchen.
"A cod hunts herring, and an octopus hunts clams"

31.12.2024 22:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Merechi #lexember days 28-31:

รฒmba /'ษ”mba/ n. smoke
hรณfepa /'hofepa/ n. octopus, squid
nรบke /'nuke/ n. cod
nukadรณl /nuka'dol/ n. haddock, literally "poor excuse for a cod"
รณr n. silver
รณrpa /'orpa/ n. herring
tรบlpa /'tulpa/ n. clam, from tรบlu "be fastened tight"

Example sentences in reply.

31.12.2024 22:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That is really weird. I follow you and your posts along with the others I follow are all in there. Maybe try unfollowing and refollowing?

31.12.2024 07:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My Grandma's Doilies Are Not a Joke When will art institutions finally pay respect to our foremothersโ€™ artistry?

Missed this back in April: โ€œWhen will art institutions begin to pay respect to the legacies of our foremothersโ€™ artistry? And when will we, as a culture, move beyond rigid hierarchies of value and celebrate domestic crafts in their own right?โ€

28.12.2024 22:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 625    ๐Ÿ” 132    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21

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