You know what's bugging me now? The phrase "play around" when you're talking about conlanging/conscripting. Because it's frustrating when I have no idea what the person actually did.

"I started playing around with sounds." "I started playing around with letters." What? What does that mean? Did you slosh sounds around in your mouth? Make funny shapes ( Read more... )

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I guess the first thing that I wrote in this place isn’t going to be come of my wiki crap. WOW. Oops. But this came to mind first.

I am (was) reading a book and watching an anime that have curious idea about gender and sexuality in them. The Left Hand of Darkness and Simoun. If you’ve seen my Twitter rants, you can see which of these I like and ( Read more... )

Later on, my tweets on LJ are going to say that I'm worried my mom is in jail. She's not, thankfully, and I was being a worrywart, so I'll explain what I meant ( Read more... )

But no matter how tempting it is:

EIGANA IS SILLY.

Eigana, which I found out about this morning, is a system for writing English with hiragana, one of Japan's writing systems. And that would be awesome if hiragana were an alphabet, but it's not. It's a syllabary. Each character does not represent a single phoneme, but a consonant and a 'pure' ( Read more... )

Progress memes (primarily on deviantART ( Read more... )

The second grader told me four consecutive times that he didn't give a damn about me.
Seriously, those were his words.
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Mom's writing meditations for church and rand them by me to see if they're okay. I flat out said that I don't agree with them (I think they're crap, actually), but that they're...okay for what she's trying to do. I just couldn't get over this part ( Read more... )

The Dawn of Love by Hirokawa KazuhoThis is the yaoi manga I bought today ( Read more... )

1. I dreamed that I posted a ficlet that wasn't ready--in fact, it only had my notes and everything. (I tend to write out scene titles in brackets and sometimes the dialogue's in script form before I write it out.) For some reason, people thought it was hot, and I was like "WTF? WTF ( Read more... )