My oil painting of Gatorade Arctic Blitz
Scooby's lineage goes back to the age of myth,
His oldest known ancestor, Enki Doo, even co-stars in the first known work of fiction
It’s August 6th.
Chess today.
I feel so bad for people who think cats don't love you. cats are such incredibly loving creatures and u have never felt the joy of being loved by a cat
Noticed something a little funky in the world around you and want to figure out what's up? Especially if there might be something you ought to be doing about it? Not sure what information sources to trust these days? If you're in the US, federal agencies like NOAA, USGS, EPA and more collect massive amounts of scientific data every day, much of which is publicly available online - if you know where to look.
A PDF version with clickable links is available for free on my itchio page (quakeandquiver); I'll add a direct link in a reblog.
This month’s Fiat Lingua is a short article by Mia DeSanzo about a conlang game she invented for her kids to play on road trips. It’s a great description of a light way to introduce conlanging to kids, and also a demonstration of how a Fiat Lingua article need not be long, and need not have an academic focus: It just needs to be conlang-relevant and in .pdf format.
thank god for american public transit !!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
You get on the bus and then everyone does the Flintstones thing
Anonymous asked:
Hiii. Hope you’re doing great. I wondered, is ‘dancing stage’ a word? Trying to refer to a stage for dancing but I’m not a native English speaker
Generally not. If there is some performance (e.g. a ballet), it is performed on a stage—simply a stage. If you’re going to a club, or if there is an event like a wedding, a space left clear specifically for dancing is called a dance floor. But oddly enough, even if there has been a stage erected specifically for dancing, it is not called a dancing stage: It’s just called a stage. The only time a term would ever be used is if there were, say, three different stages, and each stage had a specific purpose (e.g. this one’s the magic stage, this one’s the singing stage, and this one’s the dancing stage). These would be ad hoc coinages, though, and wouldn’t survive beyond the event.
Good question! It’s always odd to find a language—any language—has specific words for some things but not others. Some things languages care so awfully much about, but then others, that seem like they might be important, the language is like, “Eh”. And you can never predict what a language will or won’t care about. Quite the funny thing!
Anonymous asked:
Do you know if any of the trigedasleng communities are still running? I’d love to practice with the kru
You bet! Slakkru, despite its name, is now on Discord. You can find it here.
DARK WINDS IS BACK
Season 2 of Dark Winds just started! If you like mysteries (somewhat gritty, but not as gritty as the Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot), this is a mystery show starring a primarily native cast. Tons of actual Navajo dialogue. It’s on AMC (not easily streamable, but if you have a cable subscription or YouTube TV, you can record it), and you’ve got to get on it. I’m not very clever when it comes to gif-making or the like, so I’ll just say this is exactly the type of show that I would like to see more of in terms of its use of native languages. I am so delighted it’s back!
antioch-actius asked:
have you ever made an a posteriori language for a project? It seems like all of your prominent projects are a priori. While I make both kinds, most of the conlangs I make are descendants of existing languages or hypothesized languages IRL.
I think my most famous a posteriori language is Trigedasleng from the CW’s The 100. It’s actually my most popular language. Beyond that I also created the Azrán language for AMC’s Into the Badlands, which is an evolved form of Spanish, and Jessie Sams and I created Kezhwa for Amazon Prime’s Paper Girls, which was a kind of futuristic con-creole (or code) for time travelers. Lishepus for Syfy’s Dominion is also an a posteriori language, and the Verbis Diabolo I created for Showtime’s Penny Dreadful is an a posteriori project. There may have been others, but those are the ones that come to mind.
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ALTThe High Valyrian adjective jessie “joyful” was coined in honor of my fiancée, Jessie Sams, and the glyph was made thinking of her. I’ve known Jessie for ten years at this point, but our lives led winding paths that eventually led us to each other. We started working together in 2019 on Freeform’s Motherland: Fort Salem, and I’ve wanted to work with no one else ever since. When I proposed to Jessie, I gave her a ring with a Valyrian inscription inside. That inscription featured her name glyph: Ao jessives ñuhys iksā, which means “You are my joy”.
I’d never planned on getting a tattoo in my life, but we came up with an idea that meant a lot to both of us. I’d created a glyph for the word “joy” in High Valyrian and based the sound of that word on Jessie’s name. She, in turn, had created a word based on my name in her language Zhwadi (it means “create”). Her writing system is also logographic, so there’s a character associated with that. Consequently, we each decided to get each other’s “names” tattooed on ourselves. Now a part of us will always be with the other. :)
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