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“i wish i had a british accent”

ah yes, the british accent

the singular british accent

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Megascriot Jaa-J'' table done.

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Compilation of my neographys for my (shared) setting of Nor'yān, including origins and evolutions.

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Facing the Tears

In Luk, the easternmost of the petty states of former Tepat, the hills of Kanmun form the southernmost extension of the small highland at the very edge of the flat Plain of Tepat.

One prominence looks east, across the river Xhop, with the first rise of the Notoq highlands visible far behind. Beyond lay Notoq, the cradle of what would become Tepatic culture, now cut off from its cultural progeny. Once this hill was known as Ngiwthak, because it was directly across from Thak i-Tsak, the Tears of the Rock, in Notoq. The name had gradually slid downhill onto the drab town that squats between the hills and the river, although you could not see the tears themselves from the town.

Another, the western one looks across the whole plain of Tepat. Here Womuq once stood, when he came to Tepat, seeing the rich vastness which he would come to own, and now a schoolboy had this same view.

In the valley, when Silhen i-Tsyam received lessons, his father made him sit in a courtyard facing the river. He made him gaze out and try to discern the Rock, as he listened, even though the rock and even its location were invisible from this point.

He had never seen the Rock, but had heard that water sprung forth ex nihilo from the rock itself like tears, dripping down into the river. The homeland was crying for its lost children.

Sometimes Tsyam’s father took him up the near eastern hill to look at Notoq: A distant and dim smudge of higher hills. Pale green and yellow blocks of farmland. The river, a shining silver knife cutting them, cleaving plain and hill and separating Notoq from its cultural progeny.

He found a small yellow flower on a rock atop the hill.

“This flower is shorter than your ankle, but it grows on the rocks at the top of mountains. Though it is tiny, it sees more than any of us. It is not the flower’s own greatness, that gives it this advantage, but the place it has chosen to grow,” father said, remembering the Book.

Silhen bent over and turned his head around upside down until he was looking at exactly the flower at its own height. But he could not see the rock, with the flower in the way. He was disappointed. He wanted to see as far as his dad said he could see. He got down on his knees right at the flower’s level, and saw the grass, too close to see. He blurred his eyes and saw the grass, then the distant hills, then the grass, then the hills, the grass, the hills, grass, hills…

Father continued, “I am but a small child. But I can see far because I stand on the shoulders of my father and grandfather. That is learning. That is culture.”

“Daddy, pick me up!”

“You’re getting too big now.”

They trekked over to the Western hill, looking out to the Plain of Tepat, now shattered.

“None of these small kingdoms could overcome their own selfishness to bring the whole back together.”

It did not occur to Silhen then why they should all need to be brought together.

“Daddy, I will never be selfish.”

“That is the first step on the path to become a wise man.”

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the existence of "maybe", "perhaps", "perchance", and "mayhaps" suggests there should also be "maychance" and "perbe"

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Returning to this abomination.

Iaa-I'' table ready. I know you love to see it.

Returning to #megascriot.

Almost done to finish 1/3rd of the total lot of trigrams.

Meanwhile here's the word "banger" written in Megascriot

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Oh I forgot to say.

Bug (4) is going to start school now so we’ve been doing literacy practice. One set of exercises was about “opposites” and I drew a card reading “fat”. Ok what’s the opposite of fat.

Bug thought about it and then said dreamily: “meat.”

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ho Ho HO-

Rock... Is kiki.

Stone is bouba.

Always has heen to me.

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Concept: A initialism diacritic distinction based logography.

What it means: Consider a list of phonemes assigned graphemes within a language. By writing the first phoneme of a word and building on top of it using diacritics/radicals, you "spell" out the whole word.

Say, the word "whale" is based on the glyph <w> with radicals for "big" and "fish", plus some diacritic signifying it as a noun.

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Is this some kind of synesthesia we're sharing or.

Rock... Is kiki.

Stone is bouba.

Always has heen to me.

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Rock... Is kiki.

Stone is bouba.

Always has heen to me.

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im in physical pain every day because finnish tumblr users have the weirdest urls ever but nobody knows it because the urls are in finnish

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the fact that languages change over time is so funny to me. we have thousands of language that work perfectly well, but no that's not good enough, we need to keep fiddling with them. no not making them better, just making them different. why? well, humans enjoy making up words and phrases. for fun. enrichment activity

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Conceptualized a kind of ID system

7x7 ID Square sigils:

The idea is somewhat inspired by the Mandalorian culture. In short, the sigils are technically 8x8, with the outer "rim" being orientation code for scanners. The sigils are composed out of a large amount of "blocks", all of which carry some given large-base numeral value, thus being like QR codes but sexier.

The artistic designs of those personal sigils are to represent the individuality of those carrying them, and, as well, to showcase heritage in some cases.

(Parent and child sigils above.)

The absurd amount of possible block combinations could be incredibly massive, assuring difficulty of repetition.

A part of the tradition could be to never leave an empty bit/block, because "An unfinished sigil is an omen of unfulfilled destiny". The whole artistic style of those sigils could become a whole system of heraldics on its own, like certain clans possessing specific tendencies in their sigils'; Kids denying their heritage and starting a new bloodline to their name, with a sigil design far from those of their forefathers, and such stuffs. The documentation of the sigil in the cultural database could be a moment that spells coming of age to the individual within this culture.

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Indoeuropean languages

by braziliangeopoliticalmaps/instagram

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The hieroglyphic for "This thing is very sucks".

💯 but its 000 for when something's fuckall

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I imagine some trans person or enby changing their name like.

-> Goes to Wiktionary.org -> Clicks "Random entry" -> My name is now ጭምብል