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dedalvs · 17 days ago

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Wait wait wait, there are two editions of The Art of Language Invention? When did the newer one come out? What's in the newer one that isn't in the older one? I have the older one; should I get the newer one as well? — Zhyler anon

Sure does. This is the old cover:

And this is the new cover:

There's an entirely new chapter in the new one. I made it the fourth chapter pushing the orthography chapter last. There's a new case study on one of our LangTime Study languages: the rabbit language Engála! I was happy that made it in, although I was bummed initially at having to include it. I wrote up an entire case study on the Munja'kin language from NBC's Emerald City. I contacted my old showrunner David Schulner and asked for his blessing and he was happy to have me include it. Then it was run up the flagpole to NBC and NBC declined! This was the same network that had previously given me permission to use the Defiance languages in the book which are used a lot (and they're used a lot on purpose! NBC gave me the full greenlight to use them! HBO said the GoT languages had to comprise 49% or less of the language material in the book, so I had to use it judiciously). I was so bummed, but it did allow me to use one of the languages that Jessie and I created, and that made me happy.

I should post that Munja'kin case study somewhere at some point... Won't let me publish it? I'll just give it away, then! 😤

#aoli #art of language invention #conlang #emerald city #munjakin #munja'kin #engala #engála #lts #langtime #langtime studio

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sushiisiu · 2 months ago

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24 yo highschooler with a crush

#my art #JAYVIK #jayce talis #viktor arcane #arcane #vikjayce #his love language is studying the fuck out of viktor #and then inventing for him #league of legends

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uo6ep · 6 months ago

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omg forgot to post the gay furry stuff

#oc #art #my sona and a guy i invented #universal language of: belly squish boy warm #anthro

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jerichogender · 1 year ago

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thinking about the time they actually gave joey dialogue in the new teen titans: games…

“He could be role-playing with us. Art represents civilization. Maybe he’s showing us his end game?”

this says sooo much about him: his deductive reasoning skills, his appreciation for art, his understanding of other people’s psychology. i need more stories where joey gets to play detective, especially in an art or music history context, and i NEED him to have proper dialogue

#imagining an art heist job with his mom in the searchers inc. comic that exists in my head #let him be thoughtful & have a personality beyond just the sweet helpful guy who’s a good listener #we see some of this skill as a tactician in ntt #(that issue where titans tower gets attacked by the hybrid comes to mind #plus the super inventive ways he uses his powers in general)#but there’s a level of characterization you get from dialogue that he’s almost never given in ntt #there are some narration boxes that kind of give insight into his thoughts #and then there’s that issue in late late ntt that has excerpts from a book he’s writing about the titans #but in general other characters vaguely paraphrase things he signs or we just see their response & what he even said is only implied #really it wouldn’t be hard to give him dialogue like at all they did it here with text boxes that have quotation marks #you could also use angle brackets like they do in american comics when a character’s speaking in a language other than english #just have a little ‘*translated from american sign language’ as an editor’s note & people will know what’s going on #joey wilson #the new teen titans: games #undescribed

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warriorcatsobsession · 1 month ago

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Redesigned my first two warrior cats ocs

They're sisters born in windclan

Racketmouth is considered to be really loud

And Nightshade is deaf

The two are practically in-sync with each other

I wanna write on their whole thing more but I'm definitely struggling a little on it. May share more ocs

#warrior cats #art #ocs #my ocs #digital art #my art #i do have the idea that these two invented cat sign language but I'm still thinking sbout it

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sadnessisavegetable · 9 months ago

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

I did little pinups for Ghirahim because it deserves to do it. One is femme and the other is masc because how could I not? This thing shapeshifts, so it can be whatever it wants.

I have so many ideas for today, I may have a backlog of Valentine’s Day art into tomorrow lmaooo. We’ll see.

And yes, I censored as best as I could from my originals without ruining it because I am bold, but I am not tits and nips out bold.

#my ELA instructor (lesbian) loved seeing femme Ghir today lmaooo #i’m also considering giving Zant a good pinup moment but I’m not there with that idea yet #also i’m normal about the fact that I put Ghirahim’s signature I invented on these lmaooo his immortal ass took letters from many languages #ghirahim #legend of zelda #loz #my art

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myartsing · 2 years ago

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Devotion <3

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backpackingspace · 8 months ago

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okay obviously hau cheng is like prime character to be covered in tattoos but have we considered xie lian with tattoos??? Because I cannot stop thinking about it

#heaven official's blessing #Tgcf #Hua cheng #Xie lian #Tattoos #Hua cheng obviously has his xie lian tattoo but #I think that's it just the one #Or alternatively xie lians name in every language of where he's looked for his god #Xie lian though post Canon who has never been able to keep any scar ever who's body looks exactly like it did at 17 #Xie lian who's never had proof of all he's suffered except for his memories #Xie lian who's never felt safer than when he's surrounded by hua cheng xie lian who loves his husband's art #Asks for a tattoo asks his San Lang to do it #And it takes time to make ink that'll stay but if hua cheng has to invent new ink for his husband's happiness than it's easy #And once xie lian has one? He loves it he never wants to stop his body quickly fills with his husband's ink #Idk what tattoos xie lian has but maybe some sort of tribal band around his neck? Or a band of butterflies 👀#A Phoenix? A dragon? All the moments he met San Lang?#Ohhh a big one over his back of a child falling and then the child growing and catching him #The flowers hua cheng use to give him around his ankle #A series down his thigh that use to be his mother's favorites #I think Feng xin would hate it at first until xie lian explained and then he'd just be sad about it #Mu Qing is.....complicated like always #Lang qiunqui....is NOT curious he doesn't want one he isn't dying to know if xie lian has one of his time as his teacher or not #Eventually he asks xie lian if hua cheng will give him one as well and the answer is of course no but maybe....#....xie lian learns how to give tattoos 👀 the idea is surprisingly popular with the gods

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bijoumikhawal · 1 year ago

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Coptic lesbians (inspired by @felrija's work)

#cipher talk #actually egyptian tag #my art #Masr #Might do an ink & color of this eventually #What does one call a lesbian in Coptic. We have ⲧⲣⲓⲃⲁ so tribade does calque p much directly #But I think we could be more inventive. ⲧⲣⲓⲃⲁⲕⲣⲓⲛⲟⲛ perhaps #Though I am biased to prefer to create de-Hellenized terminology and that's all Greek influence on the language right there

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foxgloves-garden · 4 months ago

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I FOUND A BOOK

Look what we got from the library!!! Look at it! Look!

Now that we have The Book, there's no stopping us. You will all be drowning in words and grammar and scripts >:D

But seriously. If I had a flappy hands emoji, I'd be using it right now.

#conlang #The Art of Language Invention #writing #kori speaks

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j-esbian · 8 months ago

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frustrating how so many craft books have a section about "how to sell what you've made"

like on one hand i get it because the person writing the book has obviously made their craft a full-time job. and they might have some tips and tricks that might be useful, and there are people out there who might be trying to start a small business out of it

but on the other hand it's just exhausting and feels like another voice saying "what's the point of having a hobby if you're not going to monetize it"

#the one of those that rly boils my blood. that i still think about all the time. almost ten years later #the art of language invention by david peterson lmao. fuck that. it is NOT actually a helpful resource if youre trying to get into conlang #in the intro he pretty explicitly was like 'yeah i'm only writing this bc the publishing house approached me bc #i made up some languages for the game of thrones show and that's popular so they thought it would sell'#the meat of the book itself is pretty rudimentary stuff iirc. 'here's the ipa chart. this is what a morpheme is.'#some cool stuff in there about how to build your own font and mess with the kerning to make cursive but it was a program i dont have so #and at the end. hoooooo boy. this is where u can tell they told him to put in this kind of section bc he basically straight up said #'if you're reading this because you want to learn how to build a fantasy conlang dont bother :)#if you weren't on this specific forum in 2002 youll never get it. just hire a Real Conlanger instead'#like. that absolutely colored the rest of the book preceding it bc the entire thing was stuff i had literally just learned #in the intro to linguistics class that inspired me to want to learn how to make a language. so it was nothing new #and the added antagonism of basically saying 'if you dont already know how to do this IM not gonna help bc you'd be competition'#again i understand why he had that attitude bc that's probably how the publisher pitched it in the first place #'this is going to be a book for the average joe who knows nothing about language mechanics and might have aspirations #of writing a story with its own language (because obviously gameofthrones was the first to do that /s) and is wondering how to do it'#but just a very weird attitude to have #mine

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ringneckedpheasant · 2 years ago

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#the art of language invention #marc.txt

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retrocognizantrecreant · 2 years ago

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Commander Fox (more or less)

@hxdrostorm

#kiffar and beyond; worldbuilding with vos #oops; i arted #more like oops i invented a language

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tsunflowers · 13 days ago

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book from the sky (tianshu) xu bing, 1989-91

I was so excited to see a copy of this in real life bc it's something I studied in art history. this is a book that was typeset and printed by hand using wooden blocks but every one of the characters was invented for the sake of the piece and does not correspond to any word in the Chinese language

#museum musings

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divorceconnoisseur · 1 year ago

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VARIATION AND CHANGE OF LANGUAGES IS A FEATURE, NOT A BUG

#the concept of a 'standard' dialect of english is based in classism and is so limiting! FREE YOURSELF EMBRACE COMPLEXITY #marty martynates #linguistic posting #are you hearing me??? PLAY WITH LANGUAGE. INVENT WORDS BREAK DOWN GRAMMAR FOR PARTS AND THEN USE IT TO MAKE SOMETHING NEW. ENJOY LANGUAGE!#YOU CANNOT RUIN LANGUAGE ! ANYONE WHO SAYS THAT IS SPEAKING ABSOLUTE NONSENSE TO YOU. GO WILD. GO ABSOLUTELY BUCKWILD. HAVE FUN!!!#LANGUAGE IS AN ART. GO. BE FREE.

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calnrio · 2 years ago

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#I've been writin stupid ass webpage PHP code for DAYS and ive reached the point where I'll rip someones face off i one more error is thrown #i will BITE someoen #oopsie-woopsie <3 your syntax is all wrongie uwu #YES BITCH BECAUSE WHOEVER INVENTED THIS BACKWARDS ASS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE CAN GET FUCKED!#IT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE #I SHOULD BE FREE AND MAKE ART AND DO OTHER HUMAN THINGS AND INSTEAD I'M ARGUING WITH A MACHINE

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