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Conlanger, academic, linguist, silversmith, French instructor, Alaskan, reader, gamer, outdoors enthusiast. She/they.

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Kílta ethology of the day —

Lína në molán tunákët, inata tainkin no — loh-lohiró.
sky TOP smoke hang-CVB.PFV, light red be.PFV — IDEO
"There's smoke in the sky and the light is red."

The ideophone loh-lohiró depicts the red-orange quality of daylight caused by volcanos or wildfire smoke.

#conlang

30.05.2025 18:27 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yikes. This is so bad

21.05.2025 01:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pair of beaded rainbow earrings

Pair of beaded rainbow earrings

A recent beading project.

20.05.2025 07:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I heard this was highest turnout since 1993. I can’t imagine *why* 👀👀👀

29.04.2025 21:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Aha 😆

29.04.2025 21:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Headline from Houston Chronicle: 

"Book bans aren't stopping at libraries-now Texas is targeting bookstores"

"A new bill introduced in the Texas Legislature is the latest in a crackdown on nudity or explicit content in books."

Headline from Houston Chronicle: "Book bans aren't stopping at libraries-now Texas is targeting bookstores" "A new bill introduced in the Texas Legislature is the latest in a crackdown on nudity or explicit content in books."

It's Independent Bookstore Day, so remember that red states are pushing bills that would force booksellers to cover displays related to pride, hide books like "1984" and effectively ban "Banned Book" sections — all under the guise of protecting minors from "pornography"

www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

26.04.2025 17:01 — 👍 1577    🔁 759    💬 55    📌 33

And the 2-yo child recently too… 😣

26.04.2025 06:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have a couple students who are linguistics students in my French courses. I love them, but I’m also very, very biased.

23.04.2025 03:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow!

23.04.2025 03:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think it is because /ʒ/ is coded as a “more foreign sound” due to its relatively recent entry into the language and its prevalence in French words that have been borrowed in.

22.04.2025 18:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
speaking without an accent is as impossible as typing without a font

speaking without an accent is as impossible as typing without a font

#langsky

14.04.2025 15:03 — 👍 39    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 2

Been doing this for years and will not be stopping. Writing is a skill that’s good for cognition. Human cognition!

14.04.2025 21:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Digne, mystérieuse.

13.04.2025 23:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

too real. 🥲

13.04.2025 23:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And the more different income streams I have and types of things I do, the worse it becomes. 🙃

13.04.2025 23:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In Rílin, you’d use the anti-passive to make the patient into an oblique. This implies a kind of half-assed or failed attempt.

11.04.2025 16:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gasoline

10.04.2025 20:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Picture of a woman in a blue dress with a brown cat on her shoulder.

Picture of a woman in a blue dress with a brown cat on her shoulder.

Shoulder cat! This is her preferred spot.

05.04.2025 05:43 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Language Creation Society Official YouTube channel of the Language Creation Society (LCS), supporting constructed language (conlang) creators worldwide — primarily from the Language Creation Conferences (LCC).

youtube.com/@fiatlingua?...

See here! It’ll be streamed.

05.04.2025 00:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The 11th Language Creation Conference is almost here! If you are remote, please check out the LCS YouTube channel April 11-13 to see streaming presentations and other content. #lcc #conlang #lcs #conlangs #languagecreationsociety

05.04.2025 00:31 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I really wanna know why it’s called that

04.04.2025 03:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My sympathy, Dillon.

04.04.2025 03:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I had a really interesting interview today during which I spoke about LCC 11 and specifically, the conlang relay. We have three rings this year: conscript, poetry, and prose. If you’re attending the LCC 11, be sure to check out the relay results! #conlang #lcc11

28.03.2025 00:53 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I found a few notebooks I thought I’d lost years ago! They have many conlang notes and such inside. A real treasure for me, who thought an entire syllabary was lost to time. I have it back now.

23.03.2025 08:17 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today I presented at the Conlang Adventure online event, hosted by Will Morton. I lead a basics of conlanging workshop and crowdsourced some *very* unique phonemic inventories :D

23.03.2025 02:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for looking!

10.03.2025 23:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Aeniith Web - Home The constructed world of Aeniith is an ongoing project by me, Margaret Ransdell-Green. The site was designed by my husband, Eric Barker. On this site you can read about the humanoid species that inhabit this world, their cultures and histories, and their languages. The language aspect of the site is one of the most prominent, as linguistics is something I have been studying extensively for the past few years. I’ve been creating conlangs (constructed languages) since around 1998-9 and this is one of my primary passions. I’ve also been doing conlanging professionally in recent times as well.

Idk if it counts as 90s style but Aeniith.com is my main personal conlang site

10.03.2025 22:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

nice!

11.02.2025 09:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My sister did something like this with initial sp-, which become [f]. But for only a brief moment of her development. She also used f- to say "tomato", which was ['feɪɾoʊ].

11.02.2025 09:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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