Determine the Future of Lexiconga! - After casting your vote (if you're in the US), go cast a much lower-stakes vote and help decide whether #Lexiconga should have paid features in the future!
Full Post: https://blog.lexicon.ga/post/633790865994891264/determine-the-future-of-lexiconga
Determine the Future of Lexiconga! - After casting your vote (if you're in the US), go cast a much lower-stakes vote and help decide whether #Lexiconga should have paid features in the future!
Full Post: https://blog.lexicon.ga/post/633790865994891264/determine-the-future-of-lexiconga
Ok, so I've decided that starting today, I'm going to dedicate a minimum of half an hour every day to studying Japanese. That half hour is Japanese Time. If I have more time available after that, I can go for an hour, but if not, that's ok because I've had Japanese Time.
I don't trust myself to be able to stick to it, but I really want to do it and prove myself wrong!
@Alamantus It can depend on the font. Shavian is often made quite narrow to highlight its βefficiencyβ as a selling point. But I have made a font that tries to capture that classical beauty of Garamond which is a bit more generously proportioned: see Doolittle Garamond at https://www.shavian.info/shavian_fonts/
I hate that I'm so interested in conlangs and alternate writing systems that I try to learn about those instead of working on learning Japanese. Japanese would be so much more helpful to know, but here I am fussing over toki pona and Shavian and better writing systems and whatnot. Meh.
Oh well, at least it's fun.
So I really like the #Shavian writing system for English (https://www.shavian.info/) but I can't help but feel like the characters are too narrow. It's nice that they're completely different than the regular Latin alphabet, but I feel like it needs rounder symbols to help make it easier to pick out individual letters.
I got a spark of inspiration for my ehw #conlang tonight and I ended up adding a new vowel (/i/ with orthography <ie>) and some additional utility markers: "nie" /ni/ ties an adjective to a noun to create a new noun rather than just describing the noun, and "in" /Ιͺn/ as the present-participial adjective marker to pair with the pre-existing "ed" that behaved as a past-participial adjective!
I also brainstormed a writing system, but it's not quite ready yet.
More Mastodon instances need custom favicons!
This is great:
https://youtu.be/TEsqY4MH40s
Ooo I forgot about the Badagabada #conlang I started! I should explore that some more! That one is fun to write *and* speak!
I don't really *want* to start a new #conlang since I have so many incomplete ones, BUT I really want to make a personal conlang for general use... hmm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYZMWkmXX3k
The linguistics of video-game gibberish, with a focus on the history of Animal Crossing
Oh, nope, false alarm. I was viewing the site from http instead of https. I'll have to contact people with accounts who haven't logged in since before the 2.0 update so I can set up auto-redirect to https soon...
I just noticed that somehow I broke public libraries on #Lexiconga with the sync fix I uploaded earlier... I'm not sure how, but I'm looking into it now.
Linguistics enthusiast, conlang creator, and builder & maintainer of http://lexicon.ga
Main account: @Alamantus