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Conlangery@conlangery· May 21

I've made my comment on this, attached. Deadline is tomorrow!

As a parent to three children, I do not want or need a warning that transgender or nonbinary people exist in children's media. These people exist, and I count many of them among my friends. They know adults and children with these gender identities. It is, in fact, a positive to see these people depicted in children's media. Forcing the industry to account for these themes in their ratings in the way proposed will actually lead to fewer choices for me. It means there will be less of the children's programming I want for my children. It also means I will have to wonder if an age rating actually reflects age appropriateness or is merely there out of government bigotry. I stand against this new labeling.

Conlangery@conlangery· Dec 27

We are starting @madelinejames.bsky.social’s prompts today. He theme is all about society and culture. Be prepared to do a little extra worldbuilding these last few days #lexember

Conlangery@conlangery· Dec 22

Our next set of prompts is from the great Biblaridion. He's taken a theme that I would call Earth and Sky. Be ready to start them tomorrow! #lexember

Conlangery@conlangery· Dec 14

Today is the first day of prompts from Miles of Let's Have a Bouba. These prompts are pulled from actions associated with the four bird deities of the Bokuz conculture which is a current focus for their streams. #lexember

Conlangery@conlangery· Dec 8

With all of the Petersons’ prompts done, we’re moving on to my own five days of prompts. These are all based on a theme of animal physiology. Follow my videos for more as they come out. #lexember

Conlangery@conlangery· Dec 5

Tomorrow, we’ll be starting @dedalvs.bsky.social’s prompts, which are all about cooking and eating tools. #lexember

Conlangery@conlangery· Dec 2

For those following along with Lexember, here is a list of the first four prompts, provided by @quothalinguist.bsky.social, co-host of LangTime Studio and author of How to Create a Language.

Conlangery@conlangery· Oct 3

I have received a copy of How to Create a Language by Jessie Peterson. Review coming soon!

Conlangery@conlangery· Sep 2

Reminder that I and a bunch of other creators will be live for @madelinejames.bsky.social ' Worldbuilding festival THIS WEEKEND! Hoping to see y'all there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueIf...

Conlangery@conlangery· Sep 2

Patrons have access to a new Conlangery Episode, where I talk to Human1011 about his dragon language! It'll be up for everyone on YouTube next week! #conlang #language #linguistics

Conlangery@conlangery· Aug 20

Patrons have a new video available, all about how I make my conlang dictionaries. Wordmages and above can watch right now. Full video on YouTube on Monday. #conlang #language #linguistics www.patreon.com/posts/whats-...

Conlangery@conlangery· Jul 15

I got to talk to @dedalvs.bsky.social and @quothalinguist.bsky.social recently about a lot of things, including a certain movie. You can find the full episode on Patreon today, or wait until Monday for the YouTube release. #conlang #language #linguistics #superman. www.patreon.com/posts/kopiko...

Conlangery@conlangery· Jun 22

Hey, @bsky.app, my handle is my web address. Why am I suddenly getting this “Invalid Handle” warning?

Conlangery@conlangery· Jan 14

Patrons at $5 and up have access to early episodes of the podcast. Today, we have my interview with musician ZeWei discuss how they incorporate conlanging into their music. #conlang #langauge #linguistics www.patreon.com/posts/zewei-...

Conlangery@conlangery· Jan 13

We had one more preposition to cover, so I decided I'd go with just one more strawpoll for the preopsition meaning "away from". #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg strawpoll.com/3RnYX3kkBye

Conlangery@conlangery· Jan 10

Yesterday, we had a tie between biə and tyː for the preposition meaning "in(side)", so I have randomly chosen biə. Tyː is still in the running for our next one, meaning "to, toward" or "into". #conlang #language #lingusitics #dnd #ttrpg strawpoll.com/eNg6vpBA8gA

Conlangery@conlangery· Jan 9

Yesterday faɪ won by a landslide to become "under, on the bottom of". Now, we have a new preposition to decide on: our form for "inside". #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg strawpoll.com/3RnYX3eExye

Conlangery@conlangery· Jan 8

Yesterday, we decided that yː would be the base form of the preposition meaning "on top of", "on (touching)", or "at the top of". Now we are doing "under" or "at the bottom of". #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg strawpoll.com/7MZ0kp3NBgo

Conlangery@conlangery· Jan 7

Yesterday, we decided that oi => øʏ would mean "below". Today, we will decide what form means "touching", "on top of", or "at the top of (inside)". #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg strawpoll.com/7MZ0kpX3Ggo

Conlangery@conlangery· Sep 20

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,861,034! I think that makes me the first 20%!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,861,034, Conlangery ‪@conlangery.bsky.social‬, joined on Nov 6, 2023"

Conlangery@conlangery· Jan 12

Going to be streaming again tonight at 3:30 PM CT time. Planning to work on more postpositions, which means more fancy diagrams! #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg youtube.com/live/XaxwmlV...

An image of three diagrams for the Ndăkaga postpositions fa, kit, ba, and agu. Fa shows a cube with a sphere below and a cube with a sphere touching the bottom. Kit shows a cube with a sphere above and a cube with a sphere touching the top. Ba shows a sphere going toward a cube and agu shows a sphere going away from a cube.

Conlangery@conlangery· Jan 1

Here's the rest. (2/2)

a’a Ndăkaga [aʔa] n
egg
Putting together some simple words to catch up.

a’a Ndăkaga [aʔa] n
spruce tree
I had an interesting thought for this word. I happened to have in my list two Proto-Draconic roots, əʔa and aʔa, both of which would resolve to Ndăkaga a’a. The first I used for the previous word, meaning “egg”, and I wanted its homophone to be something unlikely to be confused.
So, I went to Wiktionary and clicked “Random word” several times until I landed on “spruce” and figured “Why not?”

ñubeu Ndăkaga [ɳɯpeɯ] n
humanoid
This is taken from the prefix ñu(g)- (from ñugi “two”) plus beu “foot”. I initially shied away from what is essentially a calque of biped, but I realized that by using the word beu, I made it clear enough. Birds are bipeds, but they would not be ñubeu, because beu is only for the inflexible feet of land animals that can’t grasp (as I mentioned under egre “talon, hand”). They might jokingly confuse humanoids with kangaroos, though, which is kind of funny.
This isn’t going to be the only word for humanoids. I already have a pejorative (and threatening) secondary sense of badaf “meat”, and I’ll probably end up with several words with varying degrees of politeness/rudeness, since dragons have to deal with humanoids (and maybe some more neutral terms that humanoid wizards themselves coined).

Conlangery@conlangery· Jan 1

Well, I did manage to finish Lexember once again. Here are my last few words. A few are not fleshed out, but do check out the last one. It's one I was saving. #conlang #lexember #dnd #ttrpg (1/2)

iju Ndăkaga [itʃɯ] n
eye
I decided to return to body parts. I looked at a few colexifications with eye, but I didn’t see anything that jumped out to me as particularly good, so have a simple word that just mean “eye” (for now).

tagid Ndăkaga [tʰakit] n
ear
If you’ve been following along, you might recognize the –id suffix on this word. Some depictions of dragons have strange fin-like earlobes, but D&D art seems to shy away from that. As such, I expect that their ears are either small holes or an exposed tympanic membrane somewhere under their bony faceplates.
Human words for ears are often related to the earlobe, and a few languages relate it to “leaf” due to that shape, but without visible earlobes, I have doubts that dragons would think in terms of shape at all, and might not really understand their ears as organs until they ascertain their function. Hence, tagid is derived from tak “to hear“.

adĭ Ndăkaga [atɪ] n
horn
Putting together some simple words to catch up.

iga Ndăkaga [ika] n
tooth
Putting together some simple words to catch up.

Conlangery@conlangery· Dec 27

I'm a little behind on my Lexember. Here's a few words for the past few days. I'll be streaming this Friday at 3ː30pm CT for people interested in this language. youtube.com/live/1Sdf-UZ... #conlang #language #dnd #ttrpg

afagĭ Ndăkaga [aɸakɪ] n 1. softness 2. weakness 3. youth; Softness is very interesting. It seems very common to associate “soft” with “weak”, and that felt like a very Draconic thing to do. But at the same time, I didn’t merely want the same association every warrior race on TV spouts (“You humans are too softǃ”), so I added in a third meaning of “youth” (attested in CLICS) to complicate things a bit.

Conlangery@conlangery· Dec 23

Just a basic word today, with a new derivational affix. #conlang #lexember #dnd #ttrpg

abegi Ndăkaga [apeki] n smoothness; Keeping on with my sensations. I considered expanding the meaning on this word, but sometimes you just need your words to be simple.This word represents another new derivational suffix. I created the adjective abe “smooth” and then the suffix –gi/-gĭ for the “-ness” nominalizer. I didn’t come up with an etymology for –gi/-gĭ because I didn’t feel that I needed to in this case. Its source is forgotten in the mists of time.

Conlangery@conlangery· Dec 22

Another day, another word. Join me at 3:30 PM Central Time for more work on this language. Maybe I'll get those adjectives sorted out. #conlang #language #linguistics #lexember #dnd #ttrpg youtube.com/live/FcBJXnz...

ufid Ndăkaga [ɯɸit] n 1. itch 2. unshed skin 3. an unpleasant sensation; In honor of the second Cursed Conlang Circus premiering today, I thought something about a feeling of discomfort was in order. I did make the root ufi “itchy” for this root, but because I don’t yet have inflections sorted for adjectives, I decided to make a noun of it using the –id suffix.

Conlangery@conlangery· Dec 21

Can dragons swim? I guess they should. #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg

uja Ndăkaga [ɯtʃa] vi 1. swim 2. bathe; Picking another odd relationship. I’m not really sure about the hygeine habits of dragons, but they can range widely and find large bodies of water, so I expect they might take a dip once in a while.So whether they get clean by taking a dip in a pond (or a lake, or the ocean, cause dragons get big) or they just observe other animals in water and don’t see the difference, I think this one works well.

Conlangery@conlangery· Dec 20

Another locomotion word. It's quite fun thinking of these words from the perspective of a dragon. I'm hoping to further complicate things with the way humanoid spellcasters alter it. #conlang #lexember #dnd #ttrpg See me build this language live on Friday at 3ː30 pm CT. youtube.com/live/FcBJXnz...

abu Ndăkaga [apɯ] vi 1. hop, skip 2. run; CLICS lists a handful of languages where JUMP and RUN are linked, so I thought perhaps “hop” and “run” can work together. Thinking from a dragon’s perspecive tracking prey from the air, how different is a kangaroo hopping away from a deer running? Running gait is characterized by a point where all of the animal’s feet are off the ground, so you are kind of hopping when you run anyway.

Conlangery@conlangery· Dec 19

Figured a little semantic nuance was needed today. Unrelatedly, I'm thinking of removing the third person subject prefix, as it isn't strictly necessary and has led to some long words an unintentional tongue-twister. Maybe something to discuss on stream.

ăpĕ Ndăkaga [əpʰɛ] vi 1. jump, leap 2. launch, take off by leaping from the ground; Continuing with locomotion. I actually already had a way of saying “take off” by using the perfective and the “up” directional with the verb chi’a “to fly” (e.g. găchĭchĭ’a “I take off”), however, when thinking about “jump” and “leap“, I felt a synonym would be useful. To keep it from being completely synonymous, uses of chĭ’a for “take off” are more general, and includes gentler launch techniques like dropping off a cliff or gliding off a mountainside, but ăpĕ is specifically for “launching” by leaping into the air from the ground.

Conlangery@conlangery· Dec 18

I mentioned crawling and slithering yesterday, so I decided to continue that thought today. #conlang #language #linguistics #lexember #dnd #ttrpg