Ah, spring. You know, at Truman I learned that Russian has four seasons: osen, zima, besna and leto. But the truth is, they're really best referred to as sneg, lyod, gryaz and pyl. Current season: lyod. ::notches falls 6 and 7 on the year ( Read more... )

1. Happy birthday, spinfrog!

2. Other Waters Chapter Seven is up.

3. ( I worked on my conlang a little more last night. )

( Design notes for a conlang in search of a name. )

Hah, yes, I realized most of you don't care about conlang, but I'm trying something cool and I wanted to document it.

( Morphology, phonotactics and writing an IPP table )

Hark! A random update when I really ought to be doing research for a class ( Read more... )

Hee. So you know how I said earlier that lexicon is the hardest part of language creation for me?

Well, I think I've got a toehold on it this time. It's related to the writing system.

( Warning: extreme nerdiness inside. Read at your own risk. )

Okay. There are reasons why I'm a horrilbe linguist. I am trying to update all my notes on Swahili and this lexicon stuff is worse that pulling teeth. It's more like pulling fingernails, except not the one I actually would like to pull out. ARGH ( Read more... )

Linguistics geeks, ahoy! This page has a summary of all possible case-marking strategies broken down by agent, patient and experiencer assignment! This explains ergativity in so much less time than the Ergativity Reference Page by the Wasabi guy, though it does lack his amusing panda examples ( Read more... )

For some reason, LJ has decided to be highly selective about whether or not to give me my comment notifications. ::stabs::

On the bright shot, I finished the goddamn triofqf story, finally. Tarie says I win at potions. ::preens:: I also used the multiplication method to list the lexicon of that German-Chinese hybrid language I talked about a while ago. ( Read more... )

( Shield your eyes, for here there be conlang )