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A Bittic Researcher
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Designer and space dreamer.

Creator of a binary pictographic conlang known as Bittic.

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#ConlangNovember 20: Bittic, being a language of a spacefiaring culture, has some space-related idioms. Here are some of them. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
Here are some idioms and phrases in Classic Bittic! REL person gerund vent “Person who vents.” Someone who leaves a space habitat without permission from the habitat’s authorities. This is different from "person vent" which means “Someone who works on vents”. LOC place void be place hangar all place home “In the void, all hangars are home.” Don’t seek perfection when any solution will suffice. Here are some more idioms and phrases in Classic Bittic! and thing conjunction thing different two “A conjunction and two different things.” Two things that happen to look related but are otherwise different. 49 (base 16) Farewell
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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#ConlangNovember 17: Polish Notation was a huge inspiration for the grammar of Classic Bittic. All the colors here are to make reading easier for you. Normally, all the glyphs would be two colors. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
In Classic Bittic, operators precede their operands. Relative clauses work the same. REL person finish see 1sg “The person whom I saw.” Relative clause markers must always have the thing they are referring to right after them, even if it’s an empty “dummy” noun. do know 1sg REL person finish see 1sg “I know the person whom I saw.” Recursion is possible, but it gets confusing after a while... ...the person whom the person whom the person whom the person whom the person whom the person whom the person whom...
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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#ConlangNovember 15& 16: Playing catch-up... Classic Bittic uses VSO word-order and is strictly head-initial in both nouns and verbs. I'm planning on using the locative particle as a sort of topic-marker but that's for later. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
Classic Bittic forms questions by using the question glyph. [question glyph] Yes/no questions are formed by bracketing the statement with question glyphs. question do see 3sg 1sg question “Do they see me?” Open questions are formed by replacing the thing being asked about with the question glyph. do see 3sg thing question “What do they see?” **Note the use of “thing” as a dummy noun to “carry” the question glyph.
November 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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#ConlangNovember 14: The closest word Bittic has to "stand" is "stable". I've combined it with all of Classic Bittic's verbs. They're not as minimalist and elegant as Kēlen, but I still like them. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
(1/2) Here are some examples of the word “stable” or “stand” combined with Classic Bittic’s verbs. (from left-to-right top-to-bottom) stable “stable” or “stand” be stable “is/am stable” do stable “is/am standing” go stable “going to stand” take stable “stand (for own benefit)” give stable “stand (for someone else’s benefit)” come stable “stand and repeat” insert stable “recklessly stand” (2/2) Here are some examples of the word “stable” or “stand” combined with Classic Bittic’s verbs. (from left-to-right top-to-bottom) sit stable “foolishly stand” able stable “able to be stable” hold stable “firmly stand” finish stable “finish standing” rise stable “begin standing” fall stable “accidentally stand”
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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#ConlangNovember 13: Depending on the interpretation, Bittic has about 12 nouns and 13 verbs. Nearly everything else are content words that need to follow a noun or verb to have meaning. More complex ideas are expressed through compounding. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
be eat 3sg AND REL plant animal below dirt thing zero "They habitually eat plants for groundhogs (lit. below dirt animal) and nothing else. Note that "plant" "animal" and "thing" are the only true nouns in the sentence. They require compounding content words to develop more specific meanings.
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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#ConlangNovember 12: Bittic has two verbs that can be used to convey that the action has happened sometime in the past. Otherwise, it uses prepositional time phrases. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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#ConlangNovember 11: Bittic uses Direct Alignment. The reader must rely only on word order to infer who is doing what to whom. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
do see 1sg 3sg "I see them." do see 3sg 1sg "They see me." Note the lack of change in the pronouns as they swap roles.
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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#ConlangNovember 10: Bittic is an isolating language. The form of the glyphs do not change depending on grammar. Classifiers, simple verbs, and particles are common. Classic Bittic is special in that its grammar resembles Polish Notation. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
Classic Bittic is distinct for its heavily prefixing grammar. It classifies all words as operators or operands. When forming phrases, operators precede their operands, and heads precede their dependents. Some words can be operators or operands depending on the phrase. For example, the basic word order is verb-subject-object. The verb is an operator that takes two nouns as operands. Subjects are more salient than objects. make 3sg machine “They make a machine.” Note that the operator precedes the operands. Noun phrases follow the same pattern. Operators like nouns, case particles, and determiners are at the front with the operands following them. More “salient” operands preceding less salient ones. GEN animal person “The person’s animal.” GEN and animal plant person “The person’s plant and animal.”
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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#ConlangNovember 8: Since Bittic does not have a phonology, here is are the rules that govern what is a valid glyph. The idea is that every glyph fills out the whole space it occupies, making boundaries between the glyphs clear. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
Glyphs in Bittic are four-by-four grids made up of bits (borders are here to show the individual bits). Ones are represented by white pixels. Zeros by black pixels. Every glyph must have at least one “one” bit in every no or column In other words, rows or columns containing all “zeros” are not allowed. A comparison of glyphs, the first is valid and the other two aren't.
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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#ConlangNovember 7: I haven't decided if the Iridians knew about birds or not, but this might be their best approximation for "feather" using Classic Bittic's current lexicon. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
A translation of Classic Bittic word meaning "feather". The word is comprised of three parts: a general "thing" classifier, a word for hair, and a word for the concept of flying.
November 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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#ConlangNovember 6: Glyphs in Classic Bittic are 4x4 grids of binary digits which represents a thing or a concept. These evolved from larger and more literal pictograms that had simplified and shrunk for more information density. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
A Classic Bittic sentence that translates to: "They habitually eat plants for groundhogs (lit. below dirt animal) and nothing else." The coloring is to demonstrate phrases or groups of words.
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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#ConlangNovember 5: Bittic,being an international pictographic language, does not have a phonology in the traditional sense. On the radio waves, the message is encoded in bits of high and low frequencies. The total number of bits in a message must be a semi-prime for decoding.
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Some quick catching-up for #ConlangNovember.
Day 1: Bittic is a binary radioglyphic language that was used by a space-fairing people called the Iridians. While the culture is gone, the people left their history in the 1s and 0s of Bittic. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
A text crawl of Bittic binary text with the white squares representing 1s and black squares representing 0s.
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Well, this has been frustrating. At least I'm making progress, I think.
An intermediate step of my first attempt at UV unwrapping in Blender. I'm highlighting a seam that seems to overlap with itself in the UV Editor. Hopefully, I can fix that.
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Some idioms in Classic Bittic reflecting the conculture's spaceflight tradition. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript #worldbuilding
Here are some idioms and phrases in Classic Bittic! REL person gerund vent “Person who vents.” Someone who leaves a space habitat without permission from the habitat’s authorities. This is different from __ which means “Someone who works on vents”. LOC place void be place hangar all place home “In the void, all hangars are home.” Don’t seek perfection when any solution will suffice. Here are some more idioms and phrases in Classic Bittic! and thing conjunction thing different two “A conjunction and two different things.” Two things that happen to look related but are otherwise different. 49(base-16) Farewell.
November 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I bought a new laptop and took a dive into Blender. I made a simple beginner's mesh of a spaceship, and I'm excited to develop my skills. #art #blender
October 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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(3/3) You can read more about this on reddit. Thanks for reading this! www.reddit.com/r/worldbuild... #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript #worldbuilding
September 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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(2/3) A translation of the above image along with a breakdown of the art. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript #worldbuilding
September 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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(1/3) An ad for the Commonwealth Medical Pilots Corp in Classic Bittic. I'm working on trying to create more radioglyphic art to compliment Bittic. Hopefully it turned out well. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript #worldbuilding
September 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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A translation that shows how Classic Bittic orders its phrases. A translation that would better fit English would be "They finished it without us knowing." #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
LOC far GEN knowledge 1sg 1sg finish 3sg something "Far from our knowledge, they finished it."
August 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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A rat. #art
The image depicts a chubby brown rat viewed from different angles.
August 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Some more Classic Bittic grammar. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
When multiple verbs are strung together in Classic Bittic, then they are interpreted as happening in sequence. arrive fall 1sg "I arrive and fell." This is the same for modified verbs. rise search go eat 3sg animal "They started searching for and then will eat the animal." Prepositional phrases always precede the verb phrase. LOC place green be plant idea happy "In the park (LIT. green place) a plant is happy." They can also be used to establish how the speaker feels about the action. LOC luck have 1sg thing "Luckily (LIT. in luck), I have it." Indirect objects are always place after the verb-subject-object. give 3sg small-object DAT 2sg They give it(something small) to you." They can also be used to convey motion towards something. go animal DAT place green "The animal goes to the park."
August 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Another head drawing that I'm sort-of happy with. My skill seems to be getting better, hopefully. #art
August 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Some basics of Classic Bittic grammar. #conlang #conlangs #langsky
Classic Bittic is distinct for its heavily prefixing grammar. It classifies all words as operators or operands. When forming phrases, operators precede their operands, and heads precede their dependents. Some words can be operators or operands depending on the phrase. For example, the basic word order is verb-subject-object. The verb is an operator that takes two nouns as operands. Subjects are more salient than objects. make 3sg machine "They make a machine." Noun phrases follow the same pattern. Operators like nouns, case particles, and determiners are at the front with the operands following them. More “salient” operands preceding less salient ones. GEN animal person "The person's animal" GEN and animal plant person "The person's plant and animal."
July 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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How names work in Bittic. #conlang #conlangs #langsky
An ambiguously brown human stands in the middle of a white panel. The text above them reads... "Hello! We will be covering names in Bittic and the unique ways they work. Since Bittic typically isn’t a language learned in childhood, Bittic names are chosen by the person in adulthood when they learn the language. This person’s name is... we’ll get to that..." The same person is now pointing to themselves and is stating their name. The text above them reads... "Names in Bittic are formed when a person picks some words that they feel best describes themselves, and then prefixes a pronoun to it. This person has chosen the word [Comet] a common short name. When they refer to themselves, the first-person pronoun is prefixed to that word. Literally “I, Comet.”" A second person enters the panel from the left, calling for the name of the first person. The text above both reads... "When someone is being to them and referring to them, then that person uses the second-person pronoun. This can also be used as a familiar greeting." The second person has moved closer to the reader, and the first has moved farther way. The second person is pointing out the first person to the reader while the first person looks confused. The text above reads... "When the person being talked about isn’t involved in the conversation, then the third-person pronoun is used."
July 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM