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[sharky-the-idiot]

I love him........

[dedalvs]

Fiat Lingua Top 10 for 2024

It's time for the annual Fiat Lingua rewind!

Background: I created Fiat Lingua over ten years ago with the idea that it could be something like the Rutgers Optimality Archive: A place where conlangers could post work that they wanted to showcase, or work that was in progress. We've had tons of contributions over the years, and some standout work I'm really proud of.

Using our fancy statistics program (you know, the free version) we're able to determine the top 10 visited posts for this year (though, note, the numbers for the current year's December post will always be down a little bit, since it didn't have a full month. If you'd like to take a look at it, Carl Buck created a new workable orthography for Klingon from the original!). Here they are!

NUMBER 10

We have a tie...

"A Naming Language" (November, 2016) by Jeffrey Henning: A fantastic (and short!) essay about how to create a conlang sketch (or naming language) specifically aimed at authors. The author, Jeffrey Henning, was the most important person in conlanging from the 90s through the mid-2000s before his seminal website, Langmaker.com, died.

"Down with Morphemes: The Pitfalls of Concatenative Morphology" (March, 2014) by David J. Peterson: Honestly, I'm touched. And baffled. Why this paper, published ten years ago which hasn't touched the top ten the past two years, is suddenly on it is absolutely beyond me.

NUMBER 9

"Afrihili: An African Interlanguage" (April, 2014) by William S. Annis: Afrihili is an a posteriori auxlang from the late 60s that uses Bantu languages as its source. If you haven't read about it, you must. This article took sixth place the past two years, but this year dropped to ninth!

NUMBER 8

"Tone for Conlangers: A Basic Introduction" (April, 2018) by Aidan Aannestad: This is the third time this article has been in the top 10, but it slipped one place to number 8. Conlangers continue to find this introduction to tone quite valuable.

NUMBER 7

"Names Aren’t Neutral: David J. Peterson on Creating a Fantasy Language" (March, 2019) by David J. Peterson: Down two spots from last year, this is my article on best practices when coming up with names in a fantasy setting—even when no conlang is present.

NUMBER 6

"Introduction, A Note on the Terminology and Linguistic Methodology of This Paper, and Section I" (February, 2012) by Madeline Palmer: So...this came out of nowhere. This was an early series that helped me avoid having to do a bunch of work for Fiat Lingua in the early years. I was grateful for the runway! I have no idea why, after more than ten years, the dragon language Srínawésin is now getting attention after getting next to none in the past, but…it's getting attention—in a big way. Anyone know why?

NUMBER 5

"Patterns of Allophony" (April, 2015) by William S. Annis: Definitely one of the most popular papers on Fiat Lingua, William illustrates graphically a number of very common sound changes. This article has been at #3 the past two years but tumbled two spots this year to #5.

NUMBER 4

"Hieroglyphs of Fneise" (April, 2024) by Jason Lynn: New to Fiat Lingua this year and new to the top ten, everyone loved this new article about the hieroglyphs of Fneise, created by Jason Lynn, friend of LangTime Studio!

NUMBER 3

"A Conlang-Venture: A Select-A-Feature Adventure" (January, 2024) by Jessie Peterson: This MAMMOTH .pdf is honestly one of the greatest conlang achievements ever. Clocking in at over 700 pages, Jessie created a hyperlinked choose-your-own-adventure demonstration of how to evolve a naturalistic conlang. This document is nothing short of amazing.

NUMBER 2

"Grambank & Language Documentation: Zhwadi and Its Features" (June, 2023) by Jessie Peterson: Even her massive conlang-venture .pdf couldn't top her incredible resource from last year. This is a short description of how to use Grambank in conlanging with a link to a fillable Google spreadsheet any conlanger can copy and use to introduce their conlang to others. Last year this made #4 on the list, and this year it jumped two spots!

And now for the top viewed article for 2024 on Fiat Lingua...

NUMBER 1

"A Conlanger's Thesaurus" (September, 2014) by William S. Annis: The king is back! Last year my article on how to create a surreal conlang took the top spot. This year? Not even in the top THIRTY! It's like it was wiped off the face of the internet! Whether it's top spot or not, though, William Annis's resource on how to create unique words with unique interrelationships and associations has proved useful to conlangers of all stripes. As a reference work, it is unparalleled in terms of usefulness modulo brevity.

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And that's it for 2024! I'm looking forward to posting more conlang articles next year. If you are a conlanger, a conlang-researcher, or conlang fan who has something to say in .pdf format about a specific conlang or conlanging in general, please consider submitting something to Fiat Lingua! We take any and all articles related to conlanging in whatever form you have them. I'm also happy to help you think up ideas, or refine those ideas you have. There is no strong review like in a fancy journal: I just want to get what you have up. I'm especially in interested in hosting personal conlang stories—stories about how or why you started to create a language, or your experience creating your own language—personal stories that are often lost, but are so vital, as there is an absolute dearth of literature about conlangers! If you think you have even the seed of an idea, please get a hold of me! I want to share as many stories and ideas as I can.

[enarratives]

lolesports + Internet - Winter Split Regional Finals

Featuring KC Yike, G2 Caps, G2 Brokenblade, FNC Mikyx, Movistar KOI, HLE Peanut, GEN Ruler, Dplus KIA, NS Fisher, Team Liquid Honda, 100 Sniper, C9 Vulcan, FLY Busio

[browsethestacks]

The Forbidden Planet Film And TV Catalogue #01 (Summer1979)

Art by Brian Bolland

[tathrin]

Heads up everybody, @tamorapierce's First Test graphic novel is on FOC at comic book stores in the US this weekend! So if you're planning on getting a copy, and have a local comic shop you can order from, now would be a great time to do your pre-order!

Especially because for some reason it seems that the publisher decided not to solicit it in the "Previews" catalogue properly!? but only as an additional late supplement, which means it doesn't go in the catalogue that customers see, and it doesn't necessarily get seen by shop-owners either unless they take the time to check the updated additional items stuff online, which is usually toys and imports and stuff like that, not graphic novels??? Especially not actually popular bestselling author graphic novels...!?

(I cannot think of a better way to not sell your comic than to not put it in the damn catalogue that people order from.)

So I'm worried that there will be much fewer orders for this book than there should be, and it won't sell for crap, and then we won't get any more, so if you want one and you have a comic shop near you PLEASE consider ordering it from them, or at least letting them know it's a thing you would be interested in purchasing if they had it on the rack, so that they are least know that it exists and can maybe order some copies to sell!

(because what the heck why would they do that...!?)

Please reblog to let people know asap!

Have a sneak-peek at some of the artwork inside, too:

[astrolotte]

"I have no questions. Instead, I have something I must say. A vote for Cream Unicorn Cookie is a vote for honor, integrity, and loyalty. This Cookie has been a shining example of compassion and kindness - what all Cookies should strive for. Cream Unicorn Cookie might not be the strongest, or the most cunning, but most importantly, they have a good heart. I believe that we, the jury, are duty bound to vote for who we believe played the best, and I believe that is Cream Unicorn Cookie."

that is to say

I love Caramel Arrow and Cream Unicorn's dynamic in LCS they're sooo silly. She did naut seem to care much about Cream Uni for most of the series but once it came down to the final three she latched on and she latched on HARD. Her little monologue about why Cream Uni should win is 35 whole seconds long. I fully believe she would kill a man for Cream Unicorn Cookie. And that man may just so happen to be Affogato.

[lumber]

(Originally posted Dec. 1st, 2017)

🖤💀🖤 "Nothing Left Inside." #BlackFlag 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

•••

#JeauxJanovsky #JeauxJanovskyArt #JeauxJ #ComicBookGuy #TheSimpsons #MattGroening #HankAzaria #RaymondPettibone #HenryRollins #HenryLawrenceGarfield #Punk #FoxAnimation #Ink #SketchBookArt #ReadMoreComics #RozzToxManifesto #WorstEver #LCS #LocalComicShop #TheAndroidsDungeonAndBaseballCardShop #SpringField

[kynimdraws]

Watching the LCS LTA Split and glad to see Team Liquid and the meme squad help me get out of my art block somehow LMFAO...

Bonus Yeon shitpost:

[mozo-bozo]

Old sketch of sneaky bastard 🥰

[rain-cloudsky]

Feeding the affouni fans

[kaenic-rookern]

flyquest ft. their kebabs

[milkandleafs]

if you haven't seen it on twitter, there's a huge artist collaboration project for the lta north and they just updated the website with a ton more players (now every player is on there :0)

go check it out and show them some love because this was a huuuuuge project and it turned out super awesome!!

link

[dedalvs]

I'm curious as to how much it can cost to hire someone to make/develop a conlang? Like, words and phrases, syntaxes, writing, from superficial cultural frosting to deep lore, minimum to maximum pay?

Actually there's a site where you can go to hire a conlanger! It's called the LCS Jobs Board, and you can find it here:

https://jobs.conlang.org/

They have a sliding scale depending on if you're a person who wants something for their homebrew DND game or a movie studio. Check it out!

[clover-siya]

Get to know LCS's #1 and #2 in 2024

[browsethestacks]

Press Photo - Eye Of Agamotto's Norm Harris

Caption

A COLORFUL WORLD - The colorful, comic superheroes covering the wall are considered friends by Norm Harris, proprietor of State Street's Eye of Agamotto. The Eye is a refuge for devotees of four-colored, action-packed frames of fantasy. (News photo by Larry E. Wright)

Ann Arbor News, September 17, 1978