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wmblathers.bsky.social
@wmblathers.bsky.social
Language inventor guy in Wisconsin.

Just trying to survive the consensus death cult.

https://lingweenie.org/conlang/

Accounts posting genAI slop are generally an instant block from me.
Side-eye of beef.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
"The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea," Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, 2008, OUP.
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
With Kílta I went with síkkochál - "star-tail" (síkis - "star;" kochál - "tail").
November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
For example, there's a section on Kílta's color terms which makes things clearer than trolling through the entire lexicon would do. Yesterday I added almost two pages on flavor and aroma constructions.

3/3
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
There's not necessarily anything new in this section, but it does unite information spread across the lexicon and grammar in a way that makes some more covert patterns clearer. It also lets me expand on some things that I don't feel completely comfortable putting in the lexicon due to size.

2/3
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
3.

Elisp (though not all the time), some scheme, but effectively only CL these days.
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
As do you!
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Reposted
Circassian has a native coinage: тхылъ /txıɬ̧/ ‘book’ = тхы- /txı-/ ‘write’ + -лъ /-ɬ̧/ receptacle suffix :)
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I've been trying *not* to read it as an allegory for AI, just because I know from interviews the original ideas for the show happened years before genAI was everywhere. But it's really hard to avoid the comparison.
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Shadow could not agree more.
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is Badger, who left us early last year, at a ripe old age.

Everyone agreed he had a distinct expression, but no one could agree what that expression was: concern, sadness, disappointment. He was missing one canine, so he sometimes had an Elvis-style lip curl, and drooled when happy (often).
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
No, I do mean sniffing the wind. The Flehmen response can happen when they're facing the ground. And there's no lip-curl for this.
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I’m still thinking about options for that.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
My favorite answer to the question of the bird was "God wanted a bird."
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We used Gardiner as the textbook, but supplemented with many handouts. Hilariously (in retrospect), we were being inducted into Polotsky's "Standard Theory" of the verb just as that was starting to go out of favor for Old and Middle Egyptian. 3/3
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I have always loved these "lawyers" notebooks (not the notepads) for language work like this. They have a vertical line cutting off about a third of a page, where extra notes can go once you get to class, or other things occur to you later. 2/3
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM